Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock.

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

The world is a clock winding down.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

We're gonna rock around the clock.