Clock Quotes · Page 36

She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.

— Celia Rivenbark

I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.

— Wendy Whelan

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

— Dan Brown

“Never before in his life had he understood how subjective, how plastic, time really is.”

— Stephen King

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

— Ann Brashares

“Time seems to overlap, like the shadows of leave pressing down on other leave, layer upon layer.”

— Tan Twan Eng

Anyone is not obedient to the time / But man has always been obedient to the time

— Mak_786

“Time has this way of slowing down and speeding up,depending on how it feels.”

— Carol Lynch Williams

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed,…

— Heavy D

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

— Margaret Halsey

There's a battle rhythm, a body clock that tells you it's time for football. For me, it's always I know when I…

— Jim Harbaugh

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours.…

— David Foster Wallace

“We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or…

— James Clavell

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours…

— Thomas A. Edison

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops…

— William Faulkner

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But…

— William Shakespeare

The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide…

— Walker Percy

A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do…

— William S. Burroughs

Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace…

— Robert Cormier

Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah.…

— Matthea Harvey

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the…

— Phil Collins

Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light…

— Robin Williams

I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock…

— Darren Aronofsky

There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be…

— Derek Landy

“time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning”

— Norman Maclean

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

— Cary Fukunaga

“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.”

— Alice Schroeder

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

If you are waiting for the perfect time, it does't matter if there is a battery in the clock or not ...

— Mahmoud Emam

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

— Todd Blackledge

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— William Cowper

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

— Anonymous

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don’t hear it, and there are times that you do. I”

— David Levithan

Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.

— J.R. Ward

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

— Sylvia Plath

“The hours passed by slowly, as they always did when you were counting them down”

— Ella Frank

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

— Lisa Genova

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

— Sam Tanenhaus

“Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!”

— Jennie Breeden