Clockwise Quotes

#1. Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

John McCarthy

#2. Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Grace Murray Hopper

#3. Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose.

Susan Mallery

#4. English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

Joshua Cohen

#5. Oh, for the god of love, where did time go? [Clockwise swirl going nowhere.]

Lauren Groff

#6. It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair.

Albert Camus

#7. Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The ecliptic is shifted clockwise away from falling into the Akheru portal, which means the setting n the zodiac is that of the Winter Solstice's; this is Christmas time.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#9. I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#10. Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett ... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

Anthony Horowitz

#11. It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

John Cleese

#12. Clockwise is sunwise - as opposed to 'widdershins', which witches use.

J.S. Atherton

#13. For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

Robert Breault

#14. At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#15. Make a wish," Oliver said, gesturing to the upturned cup, "and turn it clockwise three times.

Danika Stone

#16. Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

Farley Mowat

#17. 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Anonymous

#18. Resentment-why, it is purification; it is a most stinging and painful consciousness!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. I was incapable of producing
anything coherent at the moment so
rather than throwing out some witty
banter in response I said something like
"Ohgaahaad" instead. Feel free to quote
me.

N.M. Silber

#21. I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Michael Graves

#22. I was in the oil business for a while
gas and oil, check the tires.

Mike Love

#23. I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.

John Elway

#24. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

Donald A. Norman