Quotes About Timing

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

From a logistical standpoint, I learned about when to peak, when to push, when to recover throughout the season.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

Even on the road, we continued our efforts to conceive. Part of our boy-baby effort was the need to try right at the time of ovulation. I packed an ovulation kit with me everywhere. When the strip turned blue, it meant we had a twenty-four- to forty-eight-hour window to get busy. At first I had Steve convinced that women ovulated twenty or thirty times a month. But I couldn't trick him forever. At some point he realized that that was impossible.

From the beginning there were drums, beating out world rhythm—the booming, never-failing tide on the beach; the four seasons, gliding smoothly, one from the other; when the birds come, when they go, the bear hibernating for his winter sleep. Unfathomable the way, yet all in perfect time. Watch the heartbeat in your wrist—a precise pulsing beat of life's Drum—with loss of timing you are ill. —JIMALEE BURTON (HO-CHEE-NEE), CHEROKEE, 1974

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Heaven. He can bring down any nation He wants to bring down in one night—anytime He wants.

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

The hunter handles his world with such care that he leaves no trail behind him. to leave a trail would be to become hunted by something more powerful than himself. The art of the hunter lies in his ability to choose both the timing and the location of his appearance. By doing this his interaction with the world becomes calculated and frugal, and thus the hunter avoids depleting both himself and the world around him.

Where were you When everything was falling apart? All my days Were spent by the telephone That never rang And all I needed was a call That never came To the corner of First and Amistad. Lost and insecure You found me, you found me Lyin' on the floor Surrounded, surrounded Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late You found me, you found me.

Erst Kunst und dann Nusseis, das ist die richtige Reihenfolge.

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.

The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.