Top 26 Clock Watching Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Clock Watching

#1. I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

Richard Branson

#2. I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

Ridley Scott

#3. I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.

Miranda Hart

#4. When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.

Johnny Depp

#5. You have no idea, do you?" "No, but that sounded good when they said it on Star Trek.

Kelley Armstrong

#6. The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

John Irving

#7. Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.

Sophia Bedford-Pierce

#8. I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

Andrea Corr

#9. Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.

Dan Harmon

#10. Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical - yes, or more obsequious! - than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch

Sinclair Lewis

#11. I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

Rafael Palmeiro

#12. You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

Martha Stewart

#13. Men die but an idea does not.

Alan Jay Lerner

#14. Before her parents were killed, Lena hadn't minded school. She had even liked some of her classes. Now school was just watching the clock tick.

Aaron Michael Ritchey

#15. Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

Marianne Williamson

#16. The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

Cesar Romero

#17. Or maybe another baby might have helped us. Another try. Of course, that's the worst reason to have a child, anyone on the street can tell you that, because no one can handle being an attempt at something from the very start, (1998: 200)

Chang-rae Lee

#18. We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Matthew Healy

#19. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht