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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• 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.

  Goose Gossage

  Yankees, Favorite Day, Body

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• 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.

  Bert Blyleven

  Hurt, Kids, Years

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• 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.

  Tom Seaver

  Believe, Thinking, Games

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• I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

  Stephen Bayley

  Blood, Hands, Mind

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• 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.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Light, Ecosystems

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

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• 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.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Spiritual, Taken, Book

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• 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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cities, Faces, Tribes

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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

  Vin Scully

  Stars, Carpe Diem, Men

  Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.

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• 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.

  Libba Bray

  Empathy, Listening, Would Be

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• it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Home, Simple

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• 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.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, People, Manhattan

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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