Clock Quotes · Page 40

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

— Feist

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

— E. Nesbit

“Time would be my friend, I told myself. Yet time, I knew even then, was my enemy.”

— Robin Maxwell

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

— William Shakespeare

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

— Terry Pratchett

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

— Woody Allen

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

— Marlene Dietrich

When I go to the U.S., the flights are long, and they do affect the body clock, but they are worth it.

— Sara Davies

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm…

— Summer Sanders

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury…

— Amanda Palmer

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to…

— Albert Einstein

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives.…

— John C. Maxwell

“Those minute seconds, flip minutes into hours; hours turn into days, weeks, years, and all these happen in a fraction of a…

— Aniruddha Sastikar

See the clock only when you have No work… Don't see the clock when you are working… Clock is a lock for…

— Anonymous

“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the…

— Neel Preet

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

— Baruch Spinoza

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a…

— Frank Waters

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

— James Boswell

“They say that a minute is a minute no matter where you are or what you're doing, but my brain could never…

— Liesl Shurtliff

“I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and…

— Andrea Cremer

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but…

— Alasdair Gray

“(in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was…

— Kyle Mills

Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober. How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

— Daniel Dumile

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

— Arthur Miller

“In the critical arenas of life, you cannot make up for lost time. As”

— Andy Stanley

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

— John O'Donohue

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

— Thomas Heywood

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

— Scott O'Connor

“Time is like an egg and life is like a chicken that lays the egg.”

— Murray Schisgal

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

— Eckhart Tolle

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

— Voltaire

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

“The problem with time is, sometimes there's just too much of it.”

— Jess Rothenberg

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

— Marc Guggenheim

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

— Benicio Del Toro