Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

You get out of time what you put into it.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Amy sighed. Just when she started to almost like Ian again—after all, he'd flown across the ocean and had been working around the clock to help—his snob quotient went through the roof.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate 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 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.

A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

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 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.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

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

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

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.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

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

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

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.

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

Fate carries its own clock.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

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

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

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.

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

I can go round the clock without sleep.