Clock Quote by Cees Nooteboom

“Clocks are a poor measure of time.”

— Robert Emmett

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,…

— Raymond Quaneau

“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before…

— Alice Muriel Williamson

“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.”

— Don Bradley

“the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men”

— David Landes

“There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person…

— Gordon Dahlquist

“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time…

— Truman Capote

“We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison.”

— Lang Leav

“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.”

— John McGahern

“Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these…

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the…

— Jay Griffiths