Quotes About Timing

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'

My wife drives the wrong way on a one way street. The cop pulled her over and asked, "Where are you going?" My wife said, "I must be late, everyone is all coming back!"

She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.