Top 1200 Late Quotes & Sayings

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

I am a big fan of the late Dr. Vishnuvardhan, late Ambareesh, Shivarajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar.

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

I was a bit late on Erykah Badu, but I don't think you can really be late on music. You discover it whenever; music is timeless.

'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of 'The Late Late Show,' sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

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.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

About working with Marilyn Monroe.We got along very well. My only complaint about her was that she was late all the time, but she was late out of fear as much as anything else, but it was hard to sit around and wait. She was usually an hour or two late every morning.

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

There's a problem for them [teens] when they have to get up and go to school in the morning, they're very sleepy, yet on the weekends, they'll sleep 12 hours, they'll sleep late and then go to bed late and wake up late. And on vacations, it's not a problem.

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

We may be a little bit late - we are late - coming to the recognition that we are in a strategic competition with China.

I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.

I'd end up being late no matter what before I had kids. Now, with kids, I'm super late everywhere I go.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you have the time, and the security, you might not want to do it. You’re in a race against your own enthusiasm. Don’t put it off because someone told you it’s never too late. That’s the worst lie. It’s never too late today, but it’s often too late tomorrow.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.

If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.

I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

My mom was always there. Even if she got off work late sometimes, I still went to practice, whether I was 30 minutes late, 45 minutes late... I was still going to practice.

There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

I go to sleep super late and then I wake up super late. It's something that I need to stop doing.

There are things I'm never late for. I'm not late for the theater; I'm not late for the movies; I'm not late if my single girlfriend is at a bar somewhere. But if I'm on vacation in Mexico with a bunch of cackling hens, then I'm going to be late for dinner - count on it.

The language "it's too late" is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.

The joy late coming late departs.