Stopwatch Quotes

#1. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Daley Thompson

#3. Pain-soaked joints. Endless miles. Concessions and compromises. Soon, finally, everything would come down to a few irretrievable revolutions of a stopwatch.

Lisa Luciano

#4. Watch the film, not the stopwatch.

Chuck Noll

#5. Bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch.
Descriptive on an affair

Susan Richards Shreve

#6. The imprecision in the way languages express time is related to the imprecision in the way we experience and remember it. Though no one experiences time as coarsely as the handful of distinctions in a tense system would suggest, we don't live by a mental stopwatch either.

Steven Pinker

#7. They say ... the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

Al Davis

#8. Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

Maria De Villota

#9. Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.

Jade Gurss

#11. It is probably a full description of Henry Lawsy's mind that if you had given him a book called How to Improve Your Mind in Five Minutes, he would have read it with a stopwatch.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

Arthur Lydiard

#13. What time do you need to be at work tomorrow, Hon?' Lexi asks.
Well, Ruby's back, so nine o'clock.'
What does Ruby being back have to do with anything?'
She's the human stopwatch, remember? Marriage doesn't change everything.

Erynn Mangum

#14. We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Walter Lippmann

#16. You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Mickey Mantle

#17. Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Charles Williams

#18. I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes.

Jon Lovitz

#19. It's just that life felt the right size in there ... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

Athol Fugard

#20. What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night.

Colm Toibin

#21. The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

Jorge Luis Borges