Poor Timing Quotes

A right decision at the wrong time is a wrong decision.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

Poor George, he can't help it — he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

To be candid, I think, in retrospect, it was a mistake to work at AOL when I did. I think I had rose-colored glasses about the opportunity to reinvent AOL.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

We did a version of 'You Bet' called 'Wanna Bet' in the U.S. a couple of years ago. It was a good little show but the network put it on over the summer on Mondays so nobody watched it.

I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

Advice when most needed is least heeded

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

I like sort of esoteric and weird Twitter jokes. But I actually unfollow people if they make jokes about a celebrity's death within the first two minutes of that celebrity dying.

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

And he says I have lousy timing

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

I feel like I've definitely let some good finishes go because of pushing too hard at the wrong time.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

I thought 'Back To You' was a good show. The writers' strike really kind of put an end to that, though, honestly. There were a couple of factors involved, but to start a show and then to have it disappear and not come back for that long... it's just bad form.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.