Quotes About Punctuality

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

I'm late," she told him.

Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.

I'll be setting off just after the Angelus bell- at noon, I mean - should that suit your honors.

One of the things I learned in college is that if you're going to be late for an audition, don't go.

I'm always running late - it's my downfall.

It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning.

If I'm called on, I want to be ready and efficient.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

Excel at quality of work, speed of delivery or convenience

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

'Why were you late?' Cause the bell rang before I got here...

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Be on time for James Dolan - no excuses like Zebras in the road.

Ab has just walked in, mewing- it must be tea-time; that cat has a clock in his stomach.

L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings). That

The French say, "L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings).

He, who endlessly combated his family's reliance on 'Mexican time.' They drove him crazy. If a dinner gathering was announced for six o'clock, he could be sure it wouldn't start until nine. They'd walk in as if they were early. Or worse, they'd say 'What?' as if he were the one with a problem. You know you're Mexican when lunch doesn't show up till ten at night.