Funny Quality Time Quotes

What?" Richardson snarled. "No smart retort, Mr. Gautier? Cat swallow your tongue?"
Nick gave her a charming grin he didn't really feel. "No, ma'am. A gator named Sense Formerly Known as Common."
Sneering at him, she tottered her way to her desk so that she could insult someone else and ruin their day.
Caleb let out an annoyed breath. -Great,- he projected to Nick. -Now I have to get detention, too. I really hate you, Gautier.-
Nick batted his eyelashes at Caleb. -But I wubs you, Caliboo.-
That succeeded in wringing a groan out of Caleb.
"What was that, Mr. Malphas?" Richardson asked.
"Severe intestinal woe caused by an external hemorrhoid that seems to be growing on my right-hand side." He cast a meaningful glower toward Nick.
The class erupted into laughter as Richardson shot to her feet. "Enough!" She slammed her hands on her desk. "For that, Mr. Malphas, you can join Mr. Gautier in after-school detention."
Caleb let out an irritated sigh. --More quality time with my hemorrhoid. Just what I wanted for Christmas. Yippee ki-yay.-- ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Poirot asked:

'Whatdo you see so plainly? The witnesses? The counsel? The judge? The accused standing in the dock?'

Fogg said quietly:

'That's the reason, of course! You've put your finger on it. I shall always seeher…Funny thing, romance. She had the quality of it. I don't know if she was really beautiful…She wasn't very young-tired looking-circles under her eyes. But it all centered round her. The interest-the drama. And yet, half the time,she wasn't there. She'd gone away somewhere, quite far away-just left her body there, quiescent, attentive, with the little polite smile on her lips. She was all half tones, you know, lights and shades. And yet, with it all, she was more alive than the other-that girl with the perfect body, and the beautiful face, and the crude young strength. I admired Elsa Greer because she had guts, because she could fight, because she stood up to her tormentors and never quailed! But I admired Caroline Crale because she didn't fight, because she retreated into her world of half lights and shadows. She was never defeated because she never gave battle.'

He paused:

'I'm only sure of one thing. She loved the man she killed. Loved him so much that half of her died with him…'

Mr Fogg, K.C., paused and polished his glasses.

'Dear me,' he said. 'I seem to be saying some very strange things! I was quite a young man at the time, you know. Just an ambitious youngster. These things make ~ Agatha Christie

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family. ~ Reba McEntire

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man. ~ Cat Deeley

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny. ~ Chris O'Dowd

Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual. ~ Confucius

I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat. ~ Rick Riordan

The quality of authors determines the quality of books.
The quality of musicians determines the quality of songs.
The quality of artists determines the quality of paintings.
The quality of architects determines the quality of buildings.

The quality of generals determines the quality of warriors.
The quality of preachers determines the quality of sermons.
The quality of scientists determines the quality of inventions.
The quality of leaders determines the quality of followers.

The quality of scholars determines the quality of lectures.
The quality of teachers determines the quality of students.
The quality of schools determines the quality of graduates.
The quality of graduates determines the quality of nations.

The quality of plants determines the quality of air.
The quality of air determies the quality of animals.
The quality of animals determines the quality of food.
The quality of food determines the quality of the planet. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. ~ Criss Jami

We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other? ~ Max De Pree

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. ~ Nicholas Sparks

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure. ~ Lee Trevino

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time. ~ Robert Fripp

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ~ Erin Morgenstern

We define a "true culture of quality" as an environment in which employees not only follow quality guidelines but also consistently see others taking quality-focused actions, hear others talking about quality, and feel quality all around them. ~ Anonymous

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time. ~ Denis Leary

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time. ~ Jessica Savitch

It's not more time you need. It's more quality use of the time you already have. ~ Alan Cohen

It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time. ~ Cloris Leachman

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self. ~ Lydia Lunch

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits. ~ Katherine Paterson

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. ~ Natalie Wood

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. ~ Robert Scheer

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time. ~ Steve Schirripa

I learned early on how to make best use of my time. You know, quality is more important than quantity when it comes to practice time. And unfortunately, I still need to practice a lot. ~ Joshua Bell

We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise. ~ Nancy O'Dell

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust. ~ Cornel West

After you defined Quality, it was the turn of quantity. Now apply judicious quality control. Select what can be improved? Strive for achieving the perceived Quality as above. Practically, a virtuous circle to this Quality is followed through deploying Deming's PDSA ~ Priyavrat Thareja

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls. ~ Rachel Roy

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny. ~ David Cross

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality. ~ Shirley Henderson

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time. ~ Marsha Thomason

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line. ~ Jerry Greenfield

Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period. ~ Donald Judd

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever. ~ Roger Bannister

There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play. ~ Palmer Luckey

I always feel that it is quality of time not quantity of time. ~ Alberto Del Rio

Time control directly influences the quality of play. ~ Boris Spassky

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that. ~ Tracy Morgan

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality. ~ Philip Kaufman

I really love to read bedtime story for my kids before they fall asleep.
Making them so excited and inspired, it's truly my favorite quality time. ~ Toba Beta

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity. ~ Kym Whitley

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl. ~ Julianna Margulies

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

A policy of "Quality - If Time Permits" will assure that no quality at all sneaks into the product. Hewlett-Packard ~ Tom DeMarco

We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected. ~ W. Edwards Deming

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny. ~ Seth Green

What I've come to learn with self-publishing is that if you want to provide readers with something of equal quality, it requires the same amount of time and expense. ~ Jane Green

I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know. ~ W.C. Fields

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional. ~ Yvon Chouinard

Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation. ~ Dorothea Johnson

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. ~ Rob Zombie

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. ~ William Feather

Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time? ~ Malin Akerman

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level. ~ Mark Shriver

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward. ~ Gene Tunney

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things. ~ Lee Hall

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality. ~ Sam Altman

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead. ~ Neil Walker

I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India. ~ Shaffi Mather

To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself. ~ Emmet Fox

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that. ~ Dave Chappelle

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you. ~ Brandy Norwood

The only people who make love all the time are liars. ~ Louis Jordan

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time. ~ Adam McKay

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest. ~ Steven Van Zandt

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer. ~ Ed Robertson

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do. ~ Billy Crystal

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey. ~ Sally Phillips

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions ... ~ Margaret Deland

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy. ~ Travis Bradberry

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life, ~ Carlos Slim

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die ~ Gary Hirshberg

Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh. ~ Isabel Gillies

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry. ~ Gloria Gaither

A high quality life starts with a high quality you! ~ Cheryl Richardson

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone. ~ Rachel McAdams

Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs. ~ Eraldo Banovac

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color. ~ Bill Engvall

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time. ~ Ben Stiller

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over. ~ Nicole Holofcener

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~ Lord Chesterfield

There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny. ~ Alison Brie

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard. ~ Joe Rogan

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable. ~ Jim Loehr

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time. ~ Joe Rogan

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on. ~ Norm MacDonald

I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light. ~ Frederick Lenz

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life. ~ Loni Anderson

Excellence comes when we balance quality with quantity. ~ Amit Ray

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time. ~ Billy Collins

Taking time to relax every day, spending quality time with friends, and practicing mindfulness are some of the tried and tested ways of developing self-compassion. ~ Prem Jagyasi

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. ~ Joanna Lumley

To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality time with my kids by baking or doing crafts, hiking, going to the theater and movies. ~ Andrea Navedo