Delayed Reaction Quotes

Beware the anger of a patient man.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.

He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.