Quotes of: Clocks Keyword

No, Rae, the clocks won't chime again, these clocks have marked my fall." - Fletcher Green

Kimball Lee

Dan: The objective measure of a clock, is another clock.

The Man from Earth

hndoera kind your life is a ticking of a clock when that clock stops ur life stops

Abeer rehan

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic 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. There was nothing I coul...

Slaughterhouse-Five

James Bond: Your clock, is it correct? Russian Clerk: Always. James Bond: But of course. [he walks away, checks his watch, then comes back] James Bond: Excuse me, you did say your clock was correct? Russian Clerk: Russian clocks are always... [the hi...

From Russia with Love

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Tiki Barber

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Jay Griffiths

A happy man does not hear the clock strike.

German

A clock that stands still is better than one that goes wrong.

Yiddish

Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these biological clocks that hurt us and rob us of the fabulous lives that Jesus died to give us. These clocks that ...

Impossible Is Stupid

Many men are like clocks that show one hour and strike another.

Danish

The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.

Spike Milligan

It was now twenty minutes past four in the morning, allowing for the fact that the clock in the library of his town house was four minutes slow, as it had been for as far back as he could remember. He eyed it with a frown of concentration. Now that h...

Then Comes Seduction

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

The Folded Clock: A Diary

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Angle of Repose

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Tiki Barber

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

Kerry Greenwood

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.

Kit Williams

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

Ben Katchor

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths