Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

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 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.

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

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.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

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

Fate carries its own clock.

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

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

Follow your compass, not your clock.

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

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

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

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

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

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 that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

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.

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

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

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 can go round the clock without sleep.

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

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 can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

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

I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.

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

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

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.