Convention Quote by Bruce Crown

“A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

— Jane Austen

“In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch…

— Zach Helm

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

— Kyle Mills

“A clock and a watch may be different, but time is all they talk about.”

— Eduvie Donald

“Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.”

— Haruki Murakami

“When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean.…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with…

— Charles Dickens

“For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“A watch, it’s a sign of the times.”

— Jarod Kintz

“We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust…

— Thomas Carlyle

“...but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably…

— Terry Pratchett