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Quotes About Late

Spring forward, fall back, Eunice chants. Daylight saving -- what an amazing idea. (If only you could, but where would you keep it? With the time that's found? Or the time that's kept? A treasure chest, or a hole in the ground?) You're late, Eunice says. Better than never, I reply irritably.
~ Kate Atkinson
By late afternoon, the chamber smelled of frustration and arguments gone stale.
~ Kate Mosse
On the ship back to New York late that July, I conceded. A bad idea, I knew, but I had come to see that the only way out of this suburban scheme of his was going to be through
~ Kathleen Rooney
When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Barnes in there?" he asked, meaning the principal. I shook my head. "Haven't seen him. Ms. Morales was around, though." "Yeah, I talked to her. She says I need to talk to Barnes. Late once too often this week." That grin sparked again, like being late for school earned him a place in the bad boy hall of fame.
~ Kelley Armstrong
She served supper at midnight.
~ Ken Follett
Well, well, William Hamleigh," she said. "Too late, as usual." "Insolent
~ Ken Follett
Now spurs the lated traveler apaceTo gain the timely inn.
~ William Shakespeare
What's more, our government's responses were late, slow, indecisive and almost impossible to understand. Perhaps the worst outcome so far is the rise of "moral hazard." When risky behavior is insured against the consequences of its failure, that is considered moral hazard. If performed on a broad enough scale, it can be catastrophic for a nation.
~ William W. Priest
I get superstitious in late summer.
~ David Mas Masumoto
before two a.m.
~ David Nicholls
They are waiting for us again. My youngest lad and me. The crows around the floodlights. The dogs around the gates. They are waiting for us because we are late again. My youngest lad and me.
~ David Peace
There are only two types of people in Ireland... Those who watch The Late Late Show. And there are those who have been on The Late Late Show.
~ David Walsh
Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.
~ Deb Caletti
It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?
~ Jeff Hirsch
No doubt the detour to deliver Lake had made the sheep late for an appointment.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.
~ Elizabeth Spencer
The King's court was in no hurry to return to England, that late autumn of 1120, even though the fighting, somewhat desultory in these last stages, was long over.
~ Ellis Peters
Hello Mr. Gluck, she'll say if he does. Sorry I'm late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.
~ Ali Smith
The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair?
~ Alice McDermott
She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a novel, it would have portended the fall they were all about to take
~ Alice McDermott
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
~ John Polanyi
I usually never sleep in past 10, unless it's the weekend and I had a night out with my friends, because I like to start my day.
~ Selena Gomez
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
~ Henri Rousseau