Clock Quotes

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Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a… — Jason Hawes
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work… — Henry Ford
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here… — Carlo Rovelli
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock… — Alan Keyes
Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. — Paulo Coelho
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined… — William Penn
My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes… — Johannes Kepler
[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary… — Marin Mersenne
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is… — John C. Maxwell
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without… — Ambrose Bierce
Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever. — Jane Fonda
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least… — Oscar Wilde
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one… — Albert Einstein
What time is it on the clock of the world? — Grace Lee Boggs

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