Quotes of: Clocks Keyword

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

Alonzo Mourning

We’re here,’ the Clock says. The Perfectionist opens her eyes. She sees nothing. It’s white. All white. There’s no up. There’s no down. No horizon. Nothing. It’s just white. ‘Clock, what is this?’ asks the Perfectionist. Her voice is ...

All My Friends are Superheroes

I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed since I last looked at the clocks, but their sluggishness ...

Paper Towns

Janet Black: Doctor Manhattan as you know the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction, midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. As of now it stands at four minutes to midnight. Would you agree t...

Watchmen

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

How to Watch TV News

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Elliott Abrams

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Chubby Checker

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

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Dean Inge

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all direct...

Farewell Summer

Elwood P. Dowd: [talking about Harvey] Did I tell you he could stop clocks? Dr. Chumley: To what purpose. Elwood P. Dowd: Well, you've heard the expression; 'his face would stop a clock'. Dr. Chumley: Mm-hmm. Elwood P. Dowd: Well, Harvey can look at ...

Harvey

Your life clock is ticking. But you know what? God made the clock. ~ Strength Renewed

Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey Through Breast Cancer

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.

The Sound and the Fury

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

A positive attitude creates a passion that wakes a leader up. To the leader, attitude is more powerful than an alarm clock. Positive attitude in true leadership is what makes an alarm clock unnecessary!

Leaders' Watchwords

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 ...

Jessa Gamble

Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock face with 0. The 12 hours of the clock now read 0, 1, 2, 3, … up to 11. If the time is eight o’clock, and y...

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

You're the only kick-ass general I know who needs three gay boys to dress him, John." "But I only need one gay boy to undress me.

The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari