Clock Quotes · Page 29

I just tell myself I gotta get up at 8 A.M. I don't even use an alarm clock.

— Karen Civil

Freezing time like a strobe on you, breathing in electronic fumes

— Breathe Carolina

“Human existence is as a result of the product of time”

— Sunday Adelaja

“What can you do? Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward.”

— Sloane Crosley

Time has two hands . . . emotion on one and justification on the other.

— Carl A Dixon

No one can roll back the time,everyone has to just keep pace with the mighty time.

— Anuj Somany

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

— Jose Arguelles

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

— Brian Andreas

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today…

— Alice Morse Earle

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most…

— Samuel Pepys

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

— Jane Hirshfield

“Time is a mystery that is experienced through the inevitability of change and not a mystery to be solved>”

— oliver harper

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

— Terence McKenna

“A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o’clock – similarly,…

— Daniel Tammet

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the…

— Charles Lyell

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the…

— Jeff Greenfield

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort…

— Marcel Proust

I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip,…

— Mark Teixeira

Hey, Tink," Reed called to his wife. He'd given up on the poker game and was cradling the little pink handle that…

— Cindy Gerard

“Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having…

— Walter Isaacson

I like the way [Marcus Lemonis] thinks. He's made me think about things in a different way. He's made me want to…

— June Diane Raphael

I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime…

— David Toop

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…

— Billy Joel

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

— Jan Karon

“Lost time is gone forever. Nobody ever catches up.”

— Natalia Sylvester

“We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.”

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

— Phyllis Bottome

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

— John Archibald Wheeler

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Ben Katchor

“We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison.”

— Lang Leav

“This is Holy Wood. To pass the time quickly, you just film the clock hands moving fast...”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Thales

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

— Mitch Hedberg

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

— Eleanor Catton

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

— Totok R. Biyanto

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