Subject: Time (Page 24)

Bus schedules are arranged so your bus will arrive at the transfer point precisely one minute after the connecting bus has left.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The late start is due to the time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

So many men, so little time.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering… and it’s all over much too soon.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

So what if I can’t spell Armaggedon? … it’s not the end of the world.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

(1937 – 2000) science fiction author

Tell him I’ve been too f**king busy – or vice versa.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

English football player & manager

It’s not perfect, but to me on balance Right Now is a lot better than the Good Old Days.

(1939 – 2012) Irish writer & speaker

Any renovation project on an old house will cost twice as much and take three times as long as originally estimated.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

(1878 – 1969) clergyman