Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

As terrifying as sharks are, I find it far more terrifying, the idea of being trapped on the bottom of the ocean with a ticking clock and running out of air.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time.

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

Fate carries its own clock.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.

If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.