Late Arrival Quotes

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

When someone's running late through an airport, I hope they miss their flight so they can meet the love of their life at the duty free shop.

There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production delays.

I've talked to a bunch of big men who told me they didn't really start playing basketball until seventh or eighth grade. That wasn't the situation with me.

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.

It was just a little weird coming into the seventh season (of 'Gilmore Girls'), where everyone is already set in their ways and their dynamics, and you sort of feel like you're coming into a party late. So I was just, like, 'Ugh! How do I make friends?' It's like high school dynamics!

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.

I started music late.

The late start is due to the time.

I actually went to see 'Rushmore,' and I came late, and I missed myself. It was great, that scene. I caught that scene the other day on TV, funny enough, the first scene that you see with Jason Schwartzman and myself, where we talk about his grades. That's a brilliant scene, and I have to say, we play it brilliantly.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

There´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now being held for an ungodly sum of money—the four text messages from her brother wondering if she knew how to navigate the beltway—because apparently little sisters couldn’t drive—and the voice mail from her father warning there was a problem with the reservations, she was late for brunch.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

I have come too late into a world too old.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.

I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I came out of a movie late, and he was still playing.

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.