Timing Quotes

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

Timing in life is everything.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Life is about timing.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

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

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Timing has a lot to with art.

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.

Timing is everything.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

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.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

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

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

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

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.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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