Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

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

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

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The world is a clock winding down.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

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.

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

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.

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.