Best Last Minute Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“To be fair, no one yet had complained of the dinner. Since the uncommon hour made it too late for breakfast and still a few hours too early for dinner, it had been a scramble for Violet to make them a meal on short notice. She'd curdled some cream with sweet wine and a grating of cinnamon, serving it warm to the table, and thickened the porridge of Indian meal they had eaten at breakfast and fried it in cakes drizzled thick with molasses, brought pickle and cheese from the cellar and rounded it off with two pies of the first apples picked from their orchard, still fresh from her baking of yesterday.”

Violet Last Minute Brunch

Book:Bellewether

Source: Bellewether

“Holding out was a quirk in human nature and those who lived in the Last Minute had found not only was there no penalty in lateness but often a bonus not granted the timely.”

Time Waiting Human Nature Patience Last Minute Quirks Lateness

Book:This Is Happiness

Source: This Is Happiness

“I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.”

Lasts Minutes Car Interviews Last Minute

Author:Martha Raddatz

“Dictators always look good until the last minutes.”

Looks Lasts Minutes Tyranny Dictator Last Minute

Author:Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

“The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.”

Eye Lasts Sun Minutes Humorous Balls Connected Wounds His Eyes Pitcher Last Minute Center Fielders

Author:Dizzy Dean

“One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."”

Knows Want Enough Lasts Guy Stuff Minutes Smart Scared Worried Interviews Compliment Cocky Last Minute

Author:Scott Raab

“We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Humans Lasts Minutes Seconds Cosmic December Calendars Last Minute

Author:Carl Sagan

“Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.”

Humans Ideas Lasts Turns Minutes Christmas Excess Shopping Good Ideas Traits Unfortunate Wretched Frenzy Last Minute Perfectly Good Christmas Shopping

Author:Jon Anderson

“Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats?”

Knows Said Lasts Minutes Democrat Last Minute

Author:Jay Leno

“I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.”

Helping Lasts Fighting Alive Minutes Century Photographer Fascinated Last Minute

Author:Berenice Abbott

“If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.”

Ifs Giving Children Lasts Party Minutes Messages Bother Host Bullshit Explaining Last Minute

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.”

Play Lasts Games Minutes Scripts Last Minute Memorizing Playbooks

Author:Michael Strahan

“The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.”

Needs Believe Littles Lasts Bits Emotion Audience Minutes Little Bit Add Hardest Crafts Hardest Thing Always Believe Last Minute True Emotions

Author:John Lasseter

“We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.”

Lasts Minutes Last Minute

Author:Romario

“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Ifs Way Years Humans May Earth Lasts Universe Sun Minutes Locals Seconds Cosmic September June July August December January Calendars Last Minute Milky Way Local History January 1st

Author:Carl Sagan

“I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .”

Kind Enough Able Lasts Lines Minutes Prepared Secure Spontaneous Never Quit Let It Go Last Minute Be Spontaneous

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.”

“The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.”

Lasts Minutes Information Duty Interpretation Last Minute

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you know, the more you remember. It is a circle... But remember, none of it has been exactly a drudge. I mean, you've loved all of it! Every last minute! Oh, it's delicious, this thing called life! It's a scrumptious experience, no?”

Knows Inspirational Mean Has Beens Able Lasts Remember Speak Religious Minutes Circles Delicious Last Minute

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.”

“Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.”

Facts Lasts Pleasure Minutes Surprise Lists Genre Dropping Deadline Combining Superb Last Minute

Author:Alberto Manguel

“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.”

Giving I Can Two Lasts Difficult My Own Decision Careers Clear Week Minutes Advice Couple Tunes Take Me Take Time Two Weeks It Takes Time Last Minute Yes Or No

Author:Paul Walker

“I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.”

Thinking Mind Important Sometimes Helping Lasts Actors Minutes Scene Happenings Performances Cameras Important Things Things Happen Supposed To Be Good Actors Last Minute

Author:Audrey Tautou

“I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.”

Trying Firsts Important Done Lasts Values Waiting Team Minutes Tasks My Time Smarter Urgent Hiring Great Team Last Minute

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.”

Ifs Art Lasts Understanding Minutes Building Products Add Marketing Invisible Remarkable Offering Noticing Last Minute Slapping Building Things

Author:Seth

“I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building...I changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other and says, "See, that's how it's done."”

Mind Littles Two Done Humor Funny Lasts Turns Saws Happened Feet Minutes Changed Building Suicide Commit Jumping Kitten Last Minute Flipped Jumping Off

Author:Steven Wright

“When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.”

Ifs Writing Kind Has Beens Sometimes Lasts Can Do Challenges Brain Minutes Let Me Complexes Last Minute

Author:Glenn Close

“Your digestive system is your body's Fun House, whereby food goes on a long, dark, scary ride, taking all kinds of unexpected twists and turns, being attacked by vicious secretions along the way, and not knowing until the last minute whether it will be turned into a useful body part or ejected into the Dark Hole by Mister Sphincter.”

Source: Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

Knows Want Years Lasts Pleasure Know How Plans Failing Minutes Dog Fool Twenties Supreme Planning Cunning Last Minute

Author:Wallace Stegner

“The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?”

Way Writing Kind Facts Lasts Support Creative Study Minutes College Bed Creative Writing Midwest Last Minute Binge Duress

Author:Lena Dunham

“Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels safe because we want people to be able to keep coming into this show and taking those risks. There are a lot of risks in this show, not just nudity, but emotional risks. We want the best actors to feel comfortable about coming in and exploring this subject matter with us.”

People Knows Want Feels Matter Shows Able Lasts Actors Left Risk Minutes Subjects Emotional Safe Comfortable Exploring Subject Matter Nudity Last Minute

Author:Michael Sheen

“Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was going to co-star in it. We had a deal with Sony, we got paid to write it, and it was a musical, but it never got made because...I think Arnold kind of backed out at the last minute because he was getting cold feet because ;The Last Action Hero' had come out, where he was parodying himself. But it was a really funny script, and I wish it could've seen the light, because I think it would've done really well.”

“From my experience in my country, America over and over again takes itself right to the brink, it puts one foot over but it never goes over. It wakes up at the last minute and says woah, and then pulls back...”

Country Lasts America Feet Minutes Wake Up Over It Last Minute

Author:Robert Redford

“When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.”

People Knows Littles Lasts Next Bits Minutes Television Little Bit Faster Shock Episodes Schedules Last Minute

Author:Charisma Carpenter

“Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg.”

Years Lasts Term Minutes Percent Vote Seven Candidates Frank Saddam Congratulations Hussein Seven Years Last Minute

Author:David Letterman

“The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.”

“Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.”

Years Lasts Stuff Minutes Drink Starting Preparation New Year Last Minute

Author:Albert Brooks

“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.”

Thinking Years Long Happens Lasts Happened Minutes Changed Long Time Shots Finals Productions Things Happen Posts Destination Last Minute Final Destination Post Production

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.”

Thinking Able Lasts Minutes Tvs Pace Making Changes Last Minute Live Tv

Author:J. B. Smoove

“Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.”

Lasts Three Minutes Seasons Thrown Pilots Auditions Back In The Day Last Minute

Author:Kim Dickens

“Generally, the imagery and the text go hand in hand. It's much easier when the text comes first, but sometimes I need visual stimulation in order to find the words. I get an idea of what I want when I begin to shoot, and the text is usually the last thing to be resolved. I tend to leave the text open, and I refine the words up to the last minute. As for the image, I can resolve that and get that done fairly quickly.”

Want Needs Firsts I Can Ideas Sometimes Done Hands Lasts Order Minutes Easier Visuals Resolve Imagery Hand In Hand Stimulation Last Minute

Author:Lorna Simpson

“I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.”

Way Seems Lasts Waiting Walks Minutes Pressure Miles Extras Homework Under Pressure Last Minute Extra Mile Bummed Out

Author:Steven Tyler

“How could I resist? Look, I love that record and have nothing but great, great memories of my time with BLACK SABBATH . Tony was really busy but got his solos to me at the last minute as he promised and they are just fantastic. I think BLACK SABBATH fans will be over the moon when they hear what he's done. As for Roger and Ian , well, they just sound great on this song so it really did become 'Black Purple'. Personally, I love the irony of it all.”

Thinking Wells Looks Done Lasts Song Sound Black Memories Records Fans Minutes Moon Busy Fantastic Irony My Time Solo Purple Roger Sabbath Last Minute Black Sabbath Great Memories

Author:Ian Gillan

“I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.”

Looks Mean Persons Lasts Left Process Minutes Crosses Repeats Last Minute

Author:Jonathan Meades

“I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.”

Kids Lasts Minutes Last Minute

Author:Kevin Hart

“I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.”

I Can Lasts Waiting Minutes Pressure Under Pressure Last Minute

Author:James Hunter

“I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.”

Way Writing Enough Play Lasts Song Fun Stuff Records Minutes Exciting Bedroom Extensions Last Minute

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.”

Knows Long Lasts Minutes Okay Last Minute

Author:Karlie Kloss

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