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Quotes About Schedule

I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
My body has finely balanced itself with my gruelling work schedules and if I occasionally get a break, I start missing my shoots.
~ Sanjeeda Sheikh
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
~ Oscar Wilde
Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
~ Oscar Wilde
I looked at my pocket watch. It was half past IX.
~ Connie Willis
Most of the time, you'll be able to structure your work day around your peak energy times and your family's needs, rather than your employer's policies.
~ Corinne McKay
She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.
~ Cory Doctorow
And it wasn't that you couldn't be friends with a married woman, but you weren't friends in the same way, she didn't have the same freedom i her schedule, especially not after she had children, and even before that, she didn't need you; you needed friendship, and friendship to her was auxiliary, extra.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Work gets done in the time available.
~ Cyril Northcote Parkinson
So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way
~ Walter Isaacson
workload has become more "bunched," with long periods of inactivity and short bursts of intense activity. Both of these are error-inducing modes of operation.
~ Charles Perrow
A grown person in Tahiti has an eating hour allotted to him twice a day, at 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.
~ Charles Warren Stoddard
The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.
~ Charlie Rose
Taco Tuesday is followed by Whiskey Wednesday and Thirsty Thursday.
~ Internet meme
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!
~ Lee Fox Williams, unverified
* Monday * Tuesday * Wednesday * Thursday * Friday * I blinked * Monday
~ Internet meme
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
~ Author Unknown
no leas odas, hijo mío: lee los horarios de trenes. son más exactos.
~ Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
~ Harrison Birtwistle
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.
~ Heather Brewer
There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.
~ Laurie Nadel
Remember when Adric drove that freighter full of antimatter into the Earth, and wiped out the dinosaurs for you? You felt like you'd lost so much, but let's be honest, you won that day. You did what you always do. You looked after history. You made sure the dinosaurs died out, dead on schedule.
~ Lawrence Miles
As product schedules get tighter and the level of difficulty rises, the first casualty is innovation,
~ Leander Kahney
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
~ Lemony Snicket