Clock Quotes · Page 55

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but…

— Marco Arment

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it…

— William Faulkner

It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and…

— David Cone

I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my…

— Ridley Scott

Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the…

— Jeff Giles

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what…

— Jonathan Carroll

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only…

— Lord Chesterfield

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

— Angelus Silesius

“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

— David Berlinski

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

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

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

— Matthea Harvey

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

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

“You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s a monster that has always appalled me because of the number…

— Jacques Vache

“There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.”

— Noelle Oxenhandler

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing…

— Tom Baker

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal…

— Anne Sexton

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

— Paul Ricoeur

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

— Laurence Overmire

“Time—and all the events held therein—plays out as it must. We cannot impose our will on it. The only true measure of…

— Michelle Zink

“The time is the time; reasonable time, I think, we have enough...Solely, the hand of the clock is annoying - because ,he,…

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Time is the most elastic element in the world. It increases minutes when we are waiting and decreases hours when we are…

— Anonymous

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to…

— Patrick MacGill

“A glance toward her digital clock showed the numbers twitching and randomly changing on their own, as though her clock couldn’t make…

— Kelly Creagh

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives…

— James Lafferty

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to…

— Bill Nye

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of…

— Al Gore

Time flows, we'll never perceive how, For if I were frozen stiff now, To life thawed a million years hence, The time…

— Melchor Lim

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to…

— Cynthia Kenyon

We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having…

— Daryl Wein

I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in…

— Michel Ocelot

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by…

— Alexander Whyte

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been…

— Nellie L. McClung

I was shooting for two Balaji shows, Kayamath' and Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil,' in Mumbai. I was tired working round…

— Madhura Naik

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,…

— Frederick Lenz

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight…

— Denard Robinson