“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Sleeping with Strangers
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 27
Referring to the adverse sun conditions in left field at Yankee Stadium.
Yogiisms
Variant: It gets late awfully early around here.[citation needed]
“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Sleeping with Strangers
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy
“Very early in my life it was already too late.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation
Source: Prozac Nation
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Endless Knight
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”
Franz Werfel book Jacobowsky und der Oberst
Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
“You're late," she said, tapping her watch.
"No, you're just early.”
Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy
Source: The Van Alen Legacy