“Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself!”

“For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.”

Celia Green (1935) British philosopher

“No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well. There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.”

Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

“In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

“Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing… it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

“There is always time for another last minute”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

“Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

“Flying daggers don't kill people, Chloe thought, leaping sidewise at the last minute to avoid one, grabbing the pedestrian rail. People kill people.”

Celia Thomson (1950) American writer of fiction for children and young adults

“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist