Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

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

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 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.

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.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

The world is a clock winding down.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

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.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

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

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

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 clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman.

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.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

Again time elapsed.

A glance toward her digital clock showed the numbers twitching and randomly changing on their own, as though her clock couldn’t make up its mind on what time it wanted to be.