Clocks Quotes

149 quotes by 141 authors

In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at… — James Lee Burke
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in. — Dave Beard
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs. — George H. W. Bush
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. — Thomas Otway
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,… — Lynne Truss
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time.… — Stephen Hawking
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi. — Douglas Coupland
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters,… — Charles C. Mann
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me. — Flavor Flav
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray! — Criss Jami
A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George. — Dennis Miller
It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for. — Stephanie Mills
I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and… — Dylan Thomas
Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good… — John Muir
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring… — Wystan Hugh Auden
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. — E E Cummings
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in… — Michael Ende
I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that,… — Herbie Hancock
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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