Quotes about Clocks

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. Votes: 3

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks. Votes: 1

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! Votes: 1

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. Votes: 1

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up. Votes: 1

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. Votes: 1

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. Votes: 1

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms. Votes: 1

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences. Votes: 1

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely. Votes: 1

In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. Votes: 1

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. Votes: 1

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is. Votes: 1

Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell. Votes: 1

Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion.. Votes: 0

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks Votes: 0

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. Votes: 0

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks. Votes: 0

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin. Votes: 0

Psych ward clocks, depressed, nudge like anxious calendars. Votes: 0

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time. Votes: 0

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day... Votes: 0

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. Votes: 0

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all. Votes: 0

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for. Votes: 0

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces. Votes: 0

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. Votes: 0

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. Votes: 0

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Votes: 0

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks. Votes: 0

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise. Votes: 0

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. Votes: 0

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Votes: 0

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs. Votes: 0

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. Votes: 0

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare. Votes: 0

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. Votes: 0

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks. Votes: 0

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped. Votes: 0

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago. Votes: 0

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping. Votes: 0

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink. Votes: 0

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks. Votes: 0

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. Votes: 0

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse. Votes: 0

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks. Votes: 0

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. Votes: 0

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray! Votes: 0

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange. Votes: 0

Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn't either. Money loves people that have great work ethic. Votes: 0

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight? Votes: 0

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them. Votes: 0

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in. Votes: 0

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. Votes: 0

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time. Votes: 0

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. Votes: 0

(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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks. Votes: 0

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers. Votes: 0

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world. Votes: 0

sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. Votes: 0