Top 100 Quotes About Clocks
#1. Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn't either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.
Grant Cardone
#2. I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Garry Shandling
#3. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
W. H. Auden
#4. Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?
Dean Cavanagh
#5. I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
James Thurber
#6. (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.
William Baldwin
#7. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.
David Mitchell
#8. Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
Michael Chabon
#9. He blew time like he had it to spare, like it grew on clocks instead of died there.
T. Geronimo Johnson
#10. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.
Daniel H. Pink
#11. A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once collected cuckoo clocks, and their constant chiming and tweeting and cooing had driven everybody at home a little nuts.
Anne Rice
#12. All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.
Marty Rubin
#13. One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks.
Seneca.
#14. I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
Alec Baldwin
#15. Who needs an alarm clock you you have a bladder
T. Haque
#16. I had a dream about you last night... if atomic clocks are synced up to a satellite to keep their time accurate, where does the satellite get its time? Is there a chain of atomic clocks setting time for other atomic clocks?
Marshall Ramsay
#17. What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#18. To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
Terence McKenna
#19. Illegibility
of this world. All things twice over.
The strong clocks justify
the splitting hour,
hoarsely.
You , clamped
into your deepest part,
climb out of yourself
for ever.
Paul Celan
#20. The sort of creature whose wildest fantasies were filled with ledgers that balanced perfectly, and rows of clocks chiming in eternal unison.
Daniel Polansky
#21. Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer.
David Mitchell
#22. It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks.
Seneca.
#23. There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.
Christopher Hitchens
#24. Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows what it is. How much time is there in a day? Not how many hours, minutes, seconds: how much TIME do we have?
This day?
David Mitchell
#25. But maybe time was invented so that misery might have an end. So that it shouldn't last forever? There may be something in this. And bliss, just the opposite, is eternal? There is no time in bliss. All the clocks were thrown out of heaven.
Saul Bellow
#26. I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponderous furniture, the flotsam left by those receding centuries in which, more and more, I was living.
Margaret Atwood
#28. We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.
Chris Rock
#29. What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
Brian Selznick
#30. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
Greg Nagan
#31. Humans abstract and record information in five major ways: with writing, mathematical notation, painting/photography/videography, maps, and clocks - that is, we can abstract and record verbal, numerical, visual, spatial, and temporal information.
William J. Bernstein
#32. The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
Federico Garcia Lorca
#33. The witch was as old as the mulberry tree
She lived in the house of a hundred clocks
She sold storms and sorrows and calmed the sea
And she kept her life in a box.
Neil Gaiman
#34. Clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
David Mitchell
#35. I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
Douglas Coupland
#36. So, when kiss Spring comes
we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
lips because tic clocks tock don't make
a toctic difference
to kisskiss you and to
kiss me.
E. E. Cummings
#37. [On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
Marlene Dietrich
#38. There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.
Jim Sanborn
#39. [ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of staying out of wars, preferring to devote themselves to more constructive endeavours like science, secure banking and building extremely accurate clocks.
Gavin Extence
#40. You taste of the sea, of clocks, dark nights, of everything that is soothing and prohibited. Of dawn in the eyes, falling snow and destiny.
Gwen Calvo
#41. The story ended with a moral: Large Enterprises Depend Upon Small Details. Jeremy couldn't see why it couldn't have just as well been: It's Wrong To Trap Nonexistent Women in Clocks, or: It Would Have Worked With A Glass Spring.
Terry Pratchett
#42. No, Rae, the clocks won't chime again, these clocks have marked my fall. - Fletcher Green
Kimball Lee
#43. Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another.
Lang Leav
#44. 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 laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.
Gordon Dahlquist
#45. By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
George H. W. Bush
#46. It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree.
Stephen Hawking
#47. You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
Ben Katchor
#48. And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades!
David Mitchell
#49. Time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
Kurt Vonnegut
#50. In a world where time cannot be measured, there are no clocks, no calendars, no definite appointments. Events are triggered by other events, not by time.
Alan Lightman
#51. If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!
Tom Hodgkinson
#52. I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.
Haruki Murakami
#53. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende
#54. Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6].
Billy Graham
#55. A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.
Tan Twan Eng
#56. The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#57. Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.
Alexandre Dumas
#58. It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is ... to live forever.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#59. The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.
Masha Tupitsyn
#60. But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
Truman Capote
#61. You see, the lives of servants are not lived by clocks, but by the ringing of their masters' bells.
Tom Angleberger
#62. No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.
Malak El Halabi
#64. There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#65. Life's too important to learn new clocks, so I unplug them all and get on with the plot.
Tim Dorsey
#66. 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 sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
James Gleick
#67. 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 have been and never will be again!
A.M. Williamson
#68. He was always in motion, like a lanky piece of clockwork that ran on invisible energy. Except clocks were simple. Wylan could only guess at Jesper's workings.
Leigh Bardugo
#70. It's the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We'll look at clocks and we won't believe the hands. They'll forecast sun but we'll pack our slickers anyway.
Walter Kirn
#71. The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.
Vincent Louis Carrella
#74. We sat and drank, each with a separate past locked up in him, and fate's alarm clocks set at unrelated futures
when, at last, a wrist was cocked, and eyes of consorts met.
Vladimir Nabokov
#75. The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.
William Gilmore Simms
#76. He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.
Ray Bradbury
#77. Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
Anonymous
#78. Every time you glance down at your smartphone to check your location, you are unwittingly consulting a network of twenty-four atomic clocks housed in satellites in low-earth orbit above you.
Steven Johnson
#79. Time is funny lately, nothing to do with clocks.
Victor Lodato
#80. Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.
Dexter Palmer
#81. Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.
Don DeLillo
#82. The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, Spring back or Fall in.
Dave Beard
#83. Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.
Bart Hopkins
#84. I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
Henry Ford
#85. A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not silent at all: it rapped on the doors, echoed in the clocks, creaked on the stairs, leaned forward to peer into my face and explode.
Truman Capote
#86. Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity
Whitney Smith
#88. I love you more than anybody in the world ... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.
Dylan Thomas
#89. The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.
Craig Ferguson
#90. If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.
Bruce Lipton
#91. I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks
P.K. Page
#92. She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.
Alice Hoffman
#93. How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.
Anthony Doerr
#95. Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.
Lorrie Moore
#96. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched the clocks to go extra-fast.
J.K. Rowling
#97. So many systems, so many pieces ... more complicated than the most complicated of clocks. I wonder, sometimes: are we truly one thing, one being, or many, many different things, simply dreaming they are one?
Robert Jackson Bennett
#99. 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 himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
William Shakespeare
#100. O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Ben Jonson
