Quotes About Delay

Never mind," said Ford. "Rome wasn't burned in a day.

A second later and they would have been dead." "Yeah, so if you'd taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longer it would have gone away.

He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.

We were just about to do nothing at all for a while but it can wait.

Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I intended

Oh, hello, Arthur Dent here. Look, sorry I haven't been in for six months but I've gone mad." "Oh, not to worry. Thought it was probably something like that. Happens here all the time. How soon can we expect you?" "When do hedgehogs start hibernating?" "Sometime in spring, I think." "I'll be in shortly after that." "Righty-ho.

But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

Having had this thought I promptly fell asleep and forgot about it for six years.

If one death could delay the event by only five minutes … what flowers might therefore bloom? We were all doomed anyway.

Do not count your chickens before they are .

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

Encore un peu, Madame.

Just give me a second to get my wind back. Who the hell put that pole there?

Nope! Not now!" Taz agreed, letting them hurry him along.

Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—

an actor friend of mine calls the 'John Wayne status.' " "What's that?" The question brought a small smile to her face. "Wayne never performed until he finished his morning's business. Usually, he was regular. But every so often, he was stymied. Sometimes there would be hundreds of people on the set milling about for hours, waiting for one man to have a bowel movement.

Why do today what you can still do in a quarter of a million years?

My PhD was not fast out of the gate.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

For years, people have re-dialed when the line was busy. They waited their turn. When I'm put on hold, I always hope that as my revenge, their other call will be someone wanting to sell them something.