Quotes About Timing

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

I won't wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.

You don't want to hit your peak until late in the season.

It's just kind of ironic with how I came into the NBA with all the expectations. You would've thought coming in the way I did that my career would last long. You'd think I'd have my more peak years in the beginning or middle. Mine just came a little later.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.

I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I feel like we do that. I just see so many women take the back seat and wait until the right opportunity, and when you do that, you miss out on the best things.

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what, a half second ahead of the audience? There's very little lag time. I think of a thing, I say it, then the audience is laughing and it all happened in a second.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

TIMING TOAST Grook on how to char for yourself There's an art of knowing when. Never try to guess. Toast until it smokes and then twenty seconds less.

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

When opportunity knocks, some people are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

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