Timer Quotes

• 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.

  Phyllis Diller

  Anger, Frustration, Kitchen

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

  Delia Smith

  Memories, Hard Work, Going Out

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

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Wife, Alarms

  They're not laughing now ..., www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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

  Conan O'Brien

  Eggs, Timing, Contracts

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• 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?

  Jessica Savitch

  Mean, Cake, Half

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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

  Delia Smith

  Sea, Numbers, Kitchen

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• I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

  Bill Veeck

  Kings, Games, Legs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tom Waits

  Want, Upside Down, I Can

  Interview with Terry Gross, whqr.org. November 3, 2011.

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

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Knowing Nothing, Always Knowing, Forever

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• 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.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• 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.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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

  Robert Lowell

  Razors, Locked, Old Timers

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

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

  Martin J. Whitman

  Needs, Investing, Assets

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• 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!

  Juno Temple

  Thinking, Directors, Able

  "Juno Temple Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Sexuality vs. Violence in Film, and Playing a Fairy in MALEFICENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Hippie, Self, Lunch

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion Field. It's kind of like drugs, only you can't come back from it. Reality Distortion is almost a permanent condition. Things come in and they go out: Presto, chango! To a certain extent, I did that with myself. 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.

  Tom Waits

  Kids, Thinking, Reality

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2011.

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• I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

  Randy Savage

  Hate, Torches, Praise

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

  Shannon Lee

  Needs, World, Fluid

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• 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.

  Mary Douglas

  Strong, Wall, Black And White

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• 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.

  Marco Pirroni

  Interesting, Balance, Fans

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• 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.

  Emily Mann

  Dark, Night, Light

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• 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.

  Emanuel Ax

  Art, Thinking, Play

  "Not My Job: Pianist Emanuel Ax Takes A Quiz On Axe Body Spray". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 30, 2013.

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• 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.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Alternatives, Manhattan

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.142, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Angel, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Tom Waits

  Kids, Clothes, Stories

  Interview with Terry Gross, whqr.org. November 3, 2011.

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