Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing.

We have not the time to take our time.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!

My biggest pet peeve is rushing.

Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

I get annoyed with rushing. Then I get in a bad mood - I'm so cranky. I hate being late.

Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.

Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.