Top 89 Quotes About Time Clocks
#1. Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#2. Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.
Stephanie Mills
#3. At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. Cummings
#4. 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 "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.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
#5. The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E.B. White
#6. I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.
John Green
#7. I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.
Ruth Whitman
#8. There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.
Robert Aickman
#9. Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to.
Like now.
Brian Selznick
#10. Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
Orhan Pamuk
#11. Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#12. Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
Markus Zusak
#13. Clocks slay time ... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
#14. The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies.
Tabitha King
#15. We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.
Dean Cavanagh
#16. Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.
Demetri Martin
#17. Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
Anne Sexton
#18. Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.
Kerry Greenwood
#20. Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
George Eliot
#21. We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.
Joshua Ferris
#22. Clocks are the enemies of time ... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night.
Tom Thumb
Lavie Tidhar
#23. Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#24. The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning.
Rene Denfeld
#26. When the clocks of midnight squander a generous time, I will go further than Ulysses' oarsmen to the realm of dreams, inaccessible to human nature. From that underwater region, I rescue fragments that I do not begin to understand.
Jorge Luis Borges
#27. The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.
Craig Callender
#28. The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
Craig Clevenger
#29. I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks
Lil' Wayne
#30. Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
Federico Fellini
#31. Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel
#32. In the Land of Memory the time is always Now.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick ... but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it.
Stephen King
#33. Look, just as time isn't inside clocks
love isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love.
Yehuda Amichai
#34. People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
Caroline B. Cooney
#35. The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.
David Berlinski
#36. Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
Kamand Kojouri
#37. She had recently turned nineteen. She had been recently nineteen for as long as she could remember. The pawnshop had been hers for a long time, centuries maybe. Clocks and calendars don't work in Night Vale. Time itself doesn't work.
Joseph Fink
#38. Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love ... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks ...
Pablo Neruda
#39. North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.
Jimmy Fallon
#40. I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time.
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
#41. Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.
Jim Harrison
#42. You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lifted miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day umtouched, some old, lost sweet tasting time.
Colum McCann
#43. Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.
Jeanette Winterson
#44. But promises are not clocks. You cannot tell time by a promise.
Anna Schmidt
#45. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.
Amber Kizer
#46. A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#47. 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
#48. Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
Anonymous
#49. 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
#50. The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.
Vincent Louis Carrella
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6].
Billy Graham
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer.
David Mitchell
#64. 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
#65. All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.
Marty Rubin
#66. He blew time like he had it to spare, like it grew on clocks instead of died there.
T. Geronimo Johnson
#67. 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
#68. Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?
Dean Cavanagh
#69. 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
#70. The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.
Don Bradley
#71. The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it.
Tod Wodicka
#72. He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#73. Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into the rhythm of the sun.
Richard J. Borden
#74. Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.
Howard Mansfield
#75. People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
K. Martin Beckner
#76. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father's antique clocks.
Ros Baxter
#77. Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.
Joan Lindsay
#78. I've lived on the equator all my life and we never had to change clocks. Now they're telling me time goes forward an hour after midnight? What is this, Narnia?
Joyce Rachelle
#79. As I set out each day, I felt like a young child again. One who hadn't yet learned the rules of manmade time; the rules of clocks and calendars, of weekdays and weekends. Except the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in a continuous, undefined mass.
Alice Steinbach
#80. [On setting all clocks at varying times in advance...]
A selfless gesture on my part which ensures I am never late, but really only means that I spend time waiting not only for people who are late but also for people who are on time.
Jon Richardson
#82. 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
#83. She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.
Alice Hoffman
#84. I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks
P.K. Page
#86. The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, Spring back or Fall in.
Dave Beard
#87. Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.
Don DeLillo
#88. Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.
Dexter Palmer
#89. Time is funny lately, nothing to do with clocks.
Victor Lodato
