Clocks Quotes

149 quotes by 141 authors

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the… — Carl Sandburg
Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we… — Thomas Harriot
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,… — Sam Keen
Money doesnâ€™t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldnâ€™t either. Â Money loves people that have great work ethic. — Grant Cardone
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the… — Roland Barthes
When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist… — Neal A. Maxwell
Time is a relationship that we have with the rest of the universe; or more accurately, we are one of the clocks, measuring one kind… — George Zebrowski
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not… — Stanislaw Lem
Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering… — Anne Sexton
We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. — Chris Rock
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although… — Rodney Stark
Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a… — Joan Lindsay
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal,… — Michael Chabon
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. — Garry Shandling
There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. — John H. Johnson
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his… — Federico Fellini
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they… — Jessa Gamble
I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks — Lil Wayne
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained… — Huston Smith
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because… — Leslie Marmon Silko

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