I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster…

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…

— George Eliot

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

— David Henry Hwang

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

— Amy Lowell

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man…

— James Boswell

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

— Ben Katchor

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief,…

— Lawrence Durrell

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses.…

— Alan Lightman

“Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?”

— Howard Koch

You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it…

— Jack LaLanne

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete…

— Henry Ford

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or…

— Baruch Spinoza

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

— Henry Ford

“You shouldn't be in here!”

— Evelyn Winters