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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

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.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can go round the clock without sleep.

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 need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

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.

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

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.

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

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

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 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 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 had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

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