Clocks Quotes

149 quotes by 141 authors

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or… — Kelley Armstrong
The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their… — Meg Cabot
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off… — Jandy Nelson
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all… — Anne Rice
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in… — Elwyn Brooks White
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend… — Susanna Kaysen
Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun… — William Shakespeare
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead,… — Alan Lightman
clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all. — David Mitchell
Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out… — Paul Celan
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. — Tammara Webber
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually… — Don DeLillo
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there… — Ursula K. Le Guin
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! — Ben Jonson
The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time… — Craig Callender
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange. — Ben Katchor
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us… — James Gleick
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a… — James Gleick

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