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Quotes About Lateness

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
~ Bonnie Tyler
Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't spell later without the word late?
~ Gena Showalter
I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.
~ Bill Hader
I stare up at Nick. "You're late." .... "I had things to take care of," he says, all growly, looking away from me and staring Ian down. They do the whole I'm alpha - No, I'm alpha thing, with the staring and pulling the shoulders back and posturing. Devyn whispers to Issie, loud enough for us to hear. "They're so sad sometimes." She whispers back, "I know.
~ Carrie Jones
Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.
~ Nigel Davis
dire à la voix qu'il est tard)
~ Claude Royet-Journoud
She's always late, except when we're late, and then she gives us unmitigated shit.
~ Laura Lippman
a) he's late. b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off. c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead. The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.)
~ Lauren Barnholdt
There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.
~ Noel Gallagher
She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.
~ Cory Doctorow
William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Had she come too late?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
i thought i was going to be early, but of course by the time i get near where we're supposed to meet, i'm later than a pregnant girl's period.
~ David Levithan
Its getting late early
~ Yogi Berra
I am always running late for absolutely everything; my hair's the last thing I do because I am terrible at it.
~ Rachel Riley
The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
~ Sade Adu
Do you happen to have a pocket mirror? "I'm afraid not. Why?" "I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Do you happen to have a pocket-mirror?" "I'm afraid not. Why?" "I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Nooooooooo!" "Don't gooooooooo!" As much as I hate to use the L word, we all love Mr. Granite. We didn't want him to leave. "Mr. Granite has been teaching at our school for a long time," said Mr. Klutz to the aliens. "Why are you suddenly showing up now?" Good question. That's why Mr. Klutz is the principal. "We do apologize for our lateness," said one of the Mr. Granites.
~ Dan Gutman
'Why were you late?' Cause the bell rang before I got here...
~ Unknown
Big Angel was late to his own mother's funeral.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Father, are we late enough to kill astronomers?
~ Madeline Miller
I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work, and their hurry to return to their folk … and their need to say: Good Morning …
~ Mahmoud Darwish