Clock Quotes
clock | September 18, 2009It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.
- A. M. Rosenthal
clock | September 17, 2009Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
- A. E. Houseman
clock | September 16, 2009Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal.
- Jerome P. Fleishman
clock | September 15, 2009In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
- Homer
clock | September 14, 2009Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell
clock | September 13, 2009Annual consumption is a function of people's expected lifetime earnings - not just their income at the current time.
- Milton Friedman
clock | September 12, 2009It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
- Anthony Trollope
clock | September 11, 2009As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
- George Carlin
clock | September 10, 2009Only when an organization exists in stable circumstances, when its operations resemble clockwork, unvarying in their practices, can individuals be taken for granted or ignored without peril.
- Rosabeth Moss-Kanter
clock | September 9, 2009Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
clock | September 8, 2009My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | September 7, 2009That, if then I had waked after a long sleep,
will make me sleep again;
and then, in dreaming,
the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me;
that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
- William Shakespeare
clock | September 6, 2009All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
- Peter M. Leschak
clock | September 5, 2009I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
- Peter De Vries
clock | September 4, 2009We have entered the era of the imperial former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
- Lawton Chiles
clock | September 3, 2009All are equal in birth and in death. Differences arise only during the interval. The Emperor and the beggar are both born naked; they sleep equally silently; they bow out without even leaving their new address. Then how can their reality be different? There can be no doubt on this score. All are basically the same.
- Atharva Veda
clock | September 2, 2009The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, "I love children because they're so honest." There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.
- Bill Cosby
clock | September 1, 2009You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.
- Billy Joel
clock | August 31, 2009Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
- Ringo Starr
clock | August 30, 2009When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor