Clock Quotes · Page 41

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

— Douglas Coupland

As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

— Guy Mowbray

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

— George H. W. Bush

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

— Tillie Olsen

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

— Anonymous

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

— Agatha Christie

Even with a clock in your own hands, you will never tell the time you fall asleep.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Many do not acknowledge the preciousness of time, until one day, they behold time slipping away from their very hands.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into…

— Brian Selznick

As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train…

— Junot Diaz

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

— Cyril Connolly

I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine…

— Laura Bush

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them…

— Anonymous

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“People assume time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a…

— Steven Moffat

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to…

— Anonymous

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For…

— Clive James

You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt…

— George Carlin

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old…

— Anonymous

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

— Henry Ford

We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us…

— Michael Jordan

“That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are…

— Matt Haig

“Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening all at once.”

— Anonymous

“Say, sis... Time is flowing slowly, but it's flowing.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

“Time is passing : not leaden stepping But sprinting on winged feet, Quick silver slipping by.”

— Richard L. Ratliff

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

— Mason Cooley

Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

— Nikhil Saluja

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

— Robert Breault

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

— Jack Osbourne

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

— David Coleman

“Time is but an extension of the Human desire for organization.”

— Richard L. Foland Jr

“Clocks are the enemies of time... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night." Tom Thumb”

— Lavie Tidhar

“Nothing is like before. Everything is kind of late.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

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

— Erin Morgenstern

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

— Leo Buscaglia

“Time is so terribly inconsistent, I find, the way it hurries on or stands still.”

— Michael Malone

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

— Edward Young

time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and…

— e. e. cummings