Timing Quotes - page 2

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment. (Elisabeth Elliot)

When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

Bruce Forsyth

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Clara Mamet

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

Colleen Haskell

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

Dick York

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

Don Knotts

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

Duane G. Carey

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

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

Eddie Huang

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Gene Tierney

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need. (Jo Bonner)

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

Khandi Alexander

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Knute Rockne

Timing in life is everything.

Leonard Maltin

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Marya Mannes

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Michael Parkinson

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

Moira Kelly

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Shawn Johnson

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Susan Sullivan

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

Sylvester McCoy

Timing is everything. (Tommy Shaw)

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman

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

Uma Thurman

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

George Will

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