Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of 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.

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 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 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

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.

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

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.

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

Fate carries its own 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.

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.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

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

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

I can go round the clock without sleep.

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

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

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

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

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

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