Clock Quotes · Page 39

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

— Paul Di Filippo

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

— Samuel Beckett

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.

— Antiphon

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

— Jane Fonda

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

— Alan Watts

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

— Anonymous

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

— Jilly Cooper

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a…

— Tony Abbott

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the…

— Maxwell Perkins

A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it.…

— J. J. Cale

“Time is an illusion of life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and…

— Blue Balliett

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just…

— Nancy Kerrigan

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you…

— Robert Morgan

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic…

— Roland Barthes

“You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. “Time” doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty…

— Paulo Coelho

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and…

— Dr. John

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and…

— Anonymous

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of…

— Thomas Mann

“Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is…

— Cecelia Ahern

“The thing I like most about time is that it’s not real. It’s all in the head. Sure, it’s a useful trick…

— Damien Echols

“Time is relative, Einstein tells us. It’s an artificial construct that we have created to remind us that we are finite, mortal.…

— Glen Robinson

“Time is a universal regressor, time will prove everything”

— Totok R. Biyanto

“But time and distance is nothing in the face of true affinity...”

— Eleanor Catton

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

— Mitch Hedberg

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

— Thales

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

— Jonathan Nolan

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

— Warren Buffett

“I won’t allow anyone to buy you a clock. Not on my watch.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Ken Venturi

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

— Laurie Colwin

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

— Steve Pavlina

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

— Jean Cocteau

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

— Indra Nooyi

“The banquet of eternal glory is made out of the ingredients of time.”

— Arnold Albert van Ruler