Clock Quotations

I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Id never choose to turn the clock back.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

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

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

Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

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.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I was surprised that they just let me wind the clock down and take a shot. I told my teammates that I was going to wind it down. ... I was hoping if I did miss, the ball would bounce and the time would run out.

If we get our trap going inside, it helps us a lot. We thought we'd run the ball, eat up the clock and keep their offense off the field because they have some good athletes on offense.

If we get that going, then we'll be moving the ball effectively and taking some time off the clock as well.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

My guess is that water got in it. I think initially exposure to the elements was to blame. The clock was also battery-operated and it stopped because of that, too. Still, its an icon downtown.

Like everyone in America, we're a little thin particularly on the defensive side. So we'll have to limit things on Saturday. We still hope to have a game format with a running clock and so forth. If we hold up we should be able to get that done. If we get a little more banged up we may have to adjust.

One of the things we wanted to do (against Tech) was use the clock when we got over the ball so we could determine which one of the defenses had been employed against us, ... We did not get to the ball quick enough, and that's something we've got to do better next week.

No one can predict what might, or might not, happen once the clock ticks past midnight this New Year's Eve. The only certainty is that this January 1 deadline cannot be extended.

No one knows how quickly the extension to the CBA will happen. It will be really interesting to see how the issues get resolved, because the peace and harmony that has helped to make the NFL so popular is very much on tenuous ground. The clock is definitely ticking.

No one had ever labeled the components to follow them over time, to see one clock as it ticks away in a single cell. All the biochemistry and molecular biology that had been done on this had been piecing together information from dead flies.

Plus, he had the presence of mind to stay in bounds and keep the clock moving. Incredible.

Now our highway people who have been working around the clock are stepping in, but they're not specialists.

Oakmont slowed down the game and ran down the shot clock on every possession. We did a good job in the second half, holding them to 11 points.

I didn't look at the clock until after they scored. I saw there was 1:04 on the clock and all I could do is shake my head. It was a bang-bang play and they did a good job.

I didn't want to take the ball to the net but they kind of forced me in that direction. I wanted to try to burn as much clock as I could. . . . I probably should have just held on to it.

I didn't want to think about it because I had confidence in taking that shot. I knew I was wide open but I knew it was early in the shot clock so I knew I had to make it. But once it went down it was a big sigh of relief.

I don't expect on Sunday for the Carolina Panthers to feel sorry for us. In their heart, I'm sure they will. But once that clock starts, I'm not going to run around and catch a ball and not expect Julius Peppers to knock my head off.

I don't expect ... the Carolina Panthers to feel sorry for us. In their hearts, I'm sure they will. But when that whistle blows, when that clock starts, I'm not going to run around and catch a football and not expect Julius Peppers to knock my head off.

Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn't been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.

The pixel clock has increased to about 100 MHz, resulting in the need for amplifiers and multiplexers with a bandwidth of 1 GHz.

When you coach against him, you feel like he's getting all the calls because he's working the refs so hard. It seems like he's always whining to the refs and falling on the ground, and he's got the clock operator in his back pocket. But it's fun to play and coach against Coach Marcum's team, because you know it's going to be a battle.

Shortly before the clock strikes 12, everyone is invited onto the rink. We hand out noisemakers and at midnight, everyone yells, makes a lot of noise and we drop balloons onto the crowd. It's a lot of fun for everyone.

She said she needed help balancing her check book. And, there was the lady who apparently had a clock that didn't work very well. She called every day for a while, asking what time it was so she could reset her clock.

She was very intense, very quick and clearly liked to play. Trying to harness that (speed and intensity) sometimes was the hardest thing. She'd get going so fast, she'd clean the clock of somebody and have no idea she hit them. She wasn't dirty; she'd just come up on somebody faster than she realized.

She would come in real early in the morning and sleep in a booth with a wind-up alarm clock so she could get up in time to start making them breakfast.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

We're gonna rock around the clock.

When they started to score points for tilting people to their back, the game opened up. Fans could see some great moves by kids on their feet. The riding clock was out and it was more exciting.

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

Has Father Time totally caught up to him? Dikembe has definitely slowed down from last year to this year and whether he can turn back the clock remains to be seen.

I'd be a fool if I said I didn't look at the clock every couple of seconds.

I'd be a fool if I said I wasn't looking at the clock every couple of seconds. But we played really hard. I was just excited to be in this position. Obviously it hurts to lose, we're all sore losers. But they have five NBA players on their team, they were bigger than us at every spot.

I'd be a fool to say I wasn't looking at the clock every couple seconds.

I can't say where she is, ... This is a great way for us to end the summer - with Martha working by our side without the recent constraints on her time. We're excited to have Martha with us around the clock as we continue to create excellent products and entertaining programs.

For sentimental reasons, she wanted the front license plate and the steering wheel to make a clock with.

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

From the starting kickoff we controlled the tempo of the game, playing hard for all four quarters. The offense was on fire, controlling the clock and ball, rolling up 316 total yards and the defense overpowering (Truckee).

I don't think I've ever lost a game with no time on the clock with someone on the foul line. I can't even evaluate that last play because it was so unbelievable to me.

I had one little opening, and I saw the shot clock running down, so I knew I had to take the shot or we were going to lose. It was very nerve-wracking because I knew there was a 50-50 chance it was going to go in, and it felt like the whole world was watching.

To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.

We take labor for granted. Look at the people, the firemen, police and medical workers who are working around the clock in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Many of them are union members and they are showing what we do for our fellow man.

We've got to make our move and get on a roll. It's mid-January and the clock is running. It's now or never for us.

We've got to move forward. The clock is ticking, for sure.

We're on the field for four hours anyway. Our games have gone 3:50, 3:40 and 3:30. You want to get my attention and my ire up, let's start talking about shortening the game. To me, this is not smart on our part. We could take some plays out that nobody would miss by running the clock in some situations.

I looked up at the clock at the other end and saw there were four seconds left. So I knew I had time for a couple of dribbles.

He was making 30-footers. I wanted to put the subs in, but they just stayed around. It seemed like the clock moved in slow motion.

We made some dumb mistakes which came back to hurt us. We controlled the clock and the ball, but just couldn't seem to cash in when needed to. Give credit to Penn. They've got a great defense.

I actually didn't know how much time there was. I knew we had swung the ball around a lot, though, and that the shot clock must be running out. So I just shot it and it went in.

We have to be more urgent and quicker getting the play in and out of the huddle. There were some times in the game I looked at the clock, and it was so low, and I was surprised. You have to get used to the clock winding down that quick.

He wants to continue to drive down crime to new lows while doing everything we can to prevent terrorism. He wants to see his education reforms institutionalized so the clock can't be turned back.

He was frustrated with the direction commercial software was taking and what you could accomplish with the high-ticket sales model, The evolution cycles go so much faster, and the clock speed of the industry goes much, much faster.

We made them play defense by waiting until the :18 mark on the shot clock unless we could take the ball all the way to the basket. That's what got us back into the game.

We look forward to demonstrating the first integrated 10G PHY/EDC device at OFC. This integration, together with the device's onboard clock synthesizer and small inexpensive package, enables introduction of low cost 10GBASE-LRM optical modules.

I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.

If something happens with the clock in a sold-out County Center, everybody sees that. He's got to concentrate every second of the time. It's a very difficult job, and Don has done it flawlessly for 40-something years.

If the clock got to a certain point, we were going to foul, but we wanted to give ourselves a shot to get the steal.