You can't be late until you show up.

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late…

— Anonymous

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of…

— Brian Skerry

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New…

— Meghan Daum

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

— Franny Armstrong

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or…

— Shauna Niequist

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things…

— William Gibson

And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and…

— Edward Hirsch

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

— Wong Kar-wai

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

— Lee Iacocca

God is never late, we're just impatient.

— LeCrae

There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with…

— Mitch Hedberg

The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States.

— Antony Blinken

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

— Jim Diamond

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it…

— Winston Churchill