Pocket Watch Quotes

#1. He picked up the candelabra, pocketed the doily underneath, then put the candelabra back in place with the pocket watch hanging from it.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. He's given me that silver pocket watch and I'd carried it everywhere. I'd loved it--until things got worse and its ticking sounded more like dark footsteps coming up behind me. I loved the watch until I started hating time. And how it ran out.

Dan Gemeinhart

#3. Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

Ruta Sepetys

#4. The parlor was inhabited by a monstrous hog's head (afflicted with droop-jaw & lazy-eye), killed by the twins on their sixteenth birthday, & a somnambulant Grandfather clock (at odds with my own pocket watch by a margin of hours. Indeed, one valued import from New Zealand is the accurate time).

David Mitchell

#5. The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.

Richard Mille

#6. As a young man he seemed to pine for a bygone world of aristocrats. [In his twenties, he] took to wearing Edwardian three-piece suits with a pocket watch and chain.

[discussing Kip Forbes]

Benjamin Wallace

#7. You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.

Simon R. Green

#8. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

Dava Sobel

#9. Death wakes up from a snooze, checks his pocket watch, and sighs.

Ishbelle Bee

#10. I have a burgundy waistcoat that ticks in the dead of night, it being my favourite and the one that carries my pocket watch from day to day.

Fennel Hudson

#11. I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

Arno Hintjens

#12. I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.

Richard Mille

#13. He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.

Richard Sherman

#14. He fumbled with something in his breeches. She had thought the past few minutes the most intense of her life, but they were nothing compared with the alarm and ashamed delight now rushing through her veins - until she realized he was only bringing out his pocket watch.

Jennifer Echols

#15. That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

Alan Tudyk

#16. I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

Woody Allen

#17. So." He looked at her expectantly. "Shall we go?" Emma blinked. "Now?" "Did you not say you would like to see inside?" "Well . . . yes. If you are certain it is safe." "Perfectly safe." He extracted his pocket watch and glanced at it. "That is, for the next four hours.

Julie Klassen

#18. Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#19. Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

Pink

#21. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield

#22. The Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET,

Lewis Carroll

#23. In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.

Agatha Christie

#24. He drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop

Lewis Carroll

#26. You know, if I had your morals, I could solve all my problems."
He shrugged one shoulder and slipped the watch back into his pocket. "If I had your problems, I could afford to have better morals.

Heidi Heilig

#27. When you confer spiritual authority on another person, you must realize that you are allowing them to pick your pocket and sell you your own watch. How

Alan W. Watts

#28. Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

Lord Chesterfield

#29. I ascend from darkness
And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;
My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket,
And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.

Conrad Aiken

#30. I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one

Jeffery Deaver

#31. Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.

Dennis Lehane

#32. I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."
Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.
Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.

Eoin Colfer