Quotes About Timing

I informed the team three years before the Olympics that I was retiring from indoor. It's not as if I left six months before the Olympics and left them with a gaping hole to fill. I retired in July of '89. The Olympics were July of '92.

You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

Hopefully, I will be meeting the right person one day.

Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

I take jobs when I can take them, sometimes you can't control it and everything comes in at one time.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

The only time I feel not consistent or accurate is when I don't know the play or if I am late on my drop.

God has always opened up doors at the right time. He's closed doors at the right time.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.

Things last either too long or not long enough.

I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i didn't think it was the right time to mention his unforunate and obvious fashion impairment.

Yes, sir. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

She was a shrewd woman, and knew that the art of life is to know when to stop talking. What words have accomplished, too many words can undo. Good-bye.

About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.