Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Ovid

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
Dolley Madison

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.
Russell Simmons

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
Kinky Friedman

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
Laura Bush

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
Thomas Malthus

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl Lagerfeld

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Eli Whitney

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
Danielle Steel

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
Tommy Douglas

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.
Morrie Schwartz

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
Morrie Schwartz

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
David Attenborough

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
David Hackworth