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Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better. -- Kelly Rowland
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? -- Billy Wilder
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. -- Georg Simmel
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk. -- Alfie Allen
Sooner or later, I'll be punctual. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude -- Charles Caleb Colton
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time. -- Laurence J. Peter
Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual. -- Warren Buffett
United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company. -- Charles Dickens
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. -- John Milton
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. -- Lin Yutang
People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'... -- Lauren Kate
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Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing. -- Nayantara
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats. -- Lord Byron
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. -- Roland Barthes
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all. -- Cyril Connolly
When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now! -- Bayard Taylor
I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it. -- Jacki Weaver
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done. -- W. H. Auden
Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime. -- Andre Simon
If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. -- Alexander Hamilton
I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones
Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual. -- Cindy Crawford
Be punctual; it shows your respect for other people. -- Archibald Marwizi
if the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented. -- knight mayor
I stabbed her with the time. It was 8:00 sharp. Right through the heart, my love is punctual and pointy. -- Jarod Kintz
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal. -- Alexander Hamilton
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day. -- Daesung
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world. -- Henrik Ibsen
You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else. -- Elisabeth of Wied
The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... -- Rose Macaulay

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