Clock Quotations | Page 7

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.

Its five o'clock some where

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

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

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

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

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Fate carries its own clock.

The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

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

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

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

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

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

The world is a clock winding down.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

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

Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

Time is what the clock says.

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

Old Time the clock-setter.

The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, / The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; / The chest contrived a double debt to pay, / A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.

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.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed.

I do not believe that John Roberts has met the burden of proof necessary to be confirmed by the Senate as chief justice of the United States, ... Sadly, there is ample evidence that he would turn the clock back on this country's great march of progress toward equal opportunity for all.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still

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

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

I work until beer o'clock.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.