Clocks Quotes

149 quotes by 141 authors

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get… — Garrison Keillor
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. — Golda Meir
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. — Tillie Olsen
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time. — James Cash Penney
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the… — Lewis Thomas
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. — Henry David Thoreau
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start… — John W. Vessey, Jr.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. — John Archibald Wheeler
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness… — Raymond Chandler
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell
Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans… — Lorrie Moore
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. Iâ€™m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of… — Jerry Spinelli
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. — Craig Clevenger
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a… — Hunter S. Thompson
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come… — William Faulkner
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now. — Brian Selznick
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami

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