Best Timer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The stopwatch threat hung over me. I set the timer with shaky clammy fingers. The silent reckoning with the not-so-silent alarm blast at the end of the merciless countdown commenced.”

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Book:Prismatic Prose: A Genre Bending Anthology

Source: Prismatic Prose: A Genre Bending Anthology

“But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!”

Thinking Feels Firsts Able Share Like You Directors Fantastic Timer

Author:Juno Temple

“I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.”

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Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.”

Ifs Wells Reason Might Easier Limits Harder Wrong Reasons Timer Time Limit

Author:Colleen Hoover

“An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.”

Children Remember Taken Remember When Modern Life Psychiatrist Naughty Timer Old Timers

Author:David Greenberg

“And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.”

Needs Done Together Pieces Working Together Timer Orchestration

Author:Duane G. Carey

“I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.”

Kind Seems Faces Lost Given Cities Groups Members Evidence Contrary Minorities Urban Tribes Handful Appointments Sanctity Prompts Punctuality Timer Minority Groups

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.”

Different Whole Light Running Rooms Plant Fishes Pet Digital Ecosystems Venus Waterfalls Lizards Timer Sensors

Author:Chris Pratt

“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”

Firsts Forever Knowing First Time Knowing Nothing Timer Always Knowing

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.”

Whole Body Share Seasons My Favorite Yankees Lockers Timer Old Timers Favorite Day

Author:Goose Gossage

“Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.”

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Author:Thomas Yellowtail

“Do you think it's easy to just walk up to Joe DiMaggio and start up a conversation? I've been around him at old-timers' games, and believe me, he's someone special. It's not easy to walk over and say, 'How ya doin', Joe, whaddya say?' You really feel as though this is the one old-timer you have to call Mister.”

Thinking Feels Believe Games Easy Walks Special Conversation Believe In Me Timer Special Someone Old Timers

Author:Tom Seaver

“We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.”

Needs Investing Fund Assets Timer

Author:Martin J. Whitman

“The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Body Kids Bits Sides Hurt Steps Gone Taught Mets Coaches Tendencies Chairs Plates Right Way Stadiums Hurt Me Pitching Fooled Minnesota Timer Old Timers

Author:Bert Blyleven

“I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.”

People Real Hard Age Jobs Like Me Real Jobs Timer Old Timers

Author:Mike Patton

“It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.”

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Author:Jancee Dunn

“Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.”

Self Moments Sound Memories Risk Demand Bigger Safety True Self Curtains Ovens Timer

Author:Kirby Wright

“You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.”

Feels Reason Play Enjoy Music Is Jazz Reason Why Lasting Listeners Timer Old Timers

Author:Barry Harris

“I use a smoke alarm as a timer.”

Use Smoke Alarms Timer

Author:Joan Rivers

“I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Done Use My Own Forget Powerful Taken Serious Conversation First Time Standing Yeah Phones Clubs Technique Shoulders Cells Good Times Chests Cell Phone Standing There Timer

Author:Dane Cook

“The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.”

Firsts Hard Difficult Interesting Fans Balance First Time Exciting Strikes Core Difficult Things Hard Core Timer

Author:Marco Pirroni

“The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."”

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Author:Tom Courtenay

“Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.”

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Author:Tom Hollander

“A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.”

People Kind Race Fire Bombs Assault Rifles Timer Dumpsters Assault Rifles

Author:Richard Engel

“Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.”

Eggs Contracts Timing Timer

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?”

Knows Mean Half Ready Cake Ovens Timer

Book:Anchorwoman

Source: Anchorwoman

“I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.”

Want I Can Upside Down Timer Things Upside Down

Author:Tom Waits

“As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.”

Want Stories Bigs Kids Wanted Clothes Back In Time Go Back In Time Timer Old Timers

Author:Tom Waits

“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”

Self Terrible Lunch Exes Hippie Personal Relationships Adventurer Manic Crooks Publicists Timer Zaphod Beeblebrox

Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.”

Locked Razors Timer Old Timers

Book:Robert Lowell: a tribute

Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute

“Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.”

Ifs School Speech Alternatives Finest Manhattan Ovens Preps Timer

Book:Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki

Source: Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki

“I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.”

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Book:Fight Club: A Novel

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.”

Ifs Said Would Be Young Half Listening Speech Empathy Careless Rambling Timer Sanctimonious Old Timers

Author:Libba Bray

“It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.”

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Author:Vin Scully

“Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.”

People Games Lost Sports Havens Baseball Forgotten Old Time Timer Old Timers Throwing Things

Author:Bob Uecker

“When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.”

Use Funny Comedy Wife My Wife Smoke Cooks Gym Alarms Funny Marriage Timer

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.”

People Firsts Chance Take A Chance Timer

Author:Chazz Palminteri

“No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands, I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands, suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised, I'm as determined as them old timers.”

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Author:Eminem

“Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.”

“I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.”

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Author:Peter Lynch

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.”

Sound Minutes Cry Anger Twenties Down And Kitchen Frustration Usual Bells Recipes Rant Rave Timer Anger And Frustration Anger Frustration

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window”

Hard Memories Hard Work Window Going Out Fallibility Timer

Author:Delia Smith

“I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effect, what you're doing is you're entering the lottery. You're hoping that you play well (and that) you play your best on the day that you're heard, and you're hoping that the people who are judging will like what you do.”

People Thinking Wells Kind Art Done Play Literature Impossible Heard Effects Judging Activity Competition Entering Lottery Timer

Author:Emanuel Ax

“When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.”

People Knows Play Light Night Dark Stage Theory Theater Agree Ghost Lamps Old Time Timer Old Timers

Author:Emily Mann

“The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.”

World Strong Black Natural White Moral Wall Response Saint Sinner Black And White Timer Old Timers

Author:Mary Douglas

“Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.”

Numbers Sea Habit Promise Disaster Kitchen I Promise Switching Timer

Author:Delia Smith

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