Timing Quotes

• I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kind
  • Obesity
  • Certificates

• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Want
  • Perfect

• Life is about timing.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Timing

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Timing
  • Austin

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• Timing has a lot to with art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Art
  • Timing

• I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Comedy
  • Ability
  • Timing

• I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Young
  • Genre

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative

  

  George Clooney
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Couple

• The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Confidence

• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Sports
  • Timing
  • Pitching

• I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Black

• On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Marriage

• I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Comedy
  • Key
  • Timing

• Timing is unpredictable and the severity is uncertain.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Timing
  • Uncertain
  • Severity

• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  

  Henry Sy
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• Don't give me timing, give me time

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Giving
  • Timing

• Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Protection
  • Timing

• No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Chance
  • Missing

• I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • People
  • Sports
  • Distance

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