Quotes About Delay

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

In general, a film's delay is disheartening for actors, but it's harder on the director and the producer who have been on the project for longer than anyone else. While actors move on to other projects, the film's makers don't.

Terence Crawford being across the street - I can't promise it's going to happen this year, but it's going to happen.

I promised my wife 27 years ago when I left Florida State that I'd bring her back to Florida. I'm a little late, but better late than never.

I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn't give it a proper category.

If it doesn't have a full delay or defund of Obamacare, I know I and many others will not be able to support whatever the leadership proposes.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed

SERV. I see you rather seeming to hasten than hastening.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

Il lui parlait, et ses phrases étaient comme de petites lettres qu'il lui aurait écrites, car, une fois qu'il les avait prononcées, elles mettaient un petit moment à l'atteindre.

months was ten years.

Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.

Já duas vezes te disse Que nunca mais te diria O que te torno a dizer E fica para outro dia.

Le meilleurde la vie se passe à dire: Il est trop tôt, puis Il est trop tard. The better part of life is spent saying: It's too early, and then It's too late.

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

Getting finance together can take a while.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Contemporaries knew him as the man with the bulging brief-case, hurrying from one place, one meeting, to another. His life was embedded in a dense mass of miscellaneous activities which both fertilized and distracted him from his writing. His failure to produce a major work of theory till 1930, when he was almost 50, was the price he paid.