Clock Quotes
clock | February 27, 2009Sometimes you are overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you?
- Marian Anderson
clock | February 26, 2009Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia Butler
clock | February 25, 2009Doctor Legsandbrains: "Apart from being a complete failure, the experiment was a great success".
- Phillip Jose Farmer (January 26, 1918 - February 25, 2009, R.I.P.), from "Only Who Can Make a Tree?" in "Book of Phillip Jose Farmer", 1971.
clock | February 24, 2009Nature has separated parents and children by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.
- Sara Coleridge
clock | February 23, 2009I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families, sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
- Russell Baker
clock | February 21, 2009For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
- Robert Charles Benchley
clock | February 20, 2009When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
- Robert Anson Heinlein
clock | February 19, 2009We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard Feynman
clock | February 18, 2009Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
- Rita Coolidge
clock | February 17, 2009Adversity will melt like a giant icicle, though your hardships be that time in between deep Winter and long awaited Spring.
- Richard S. Drapo
clock | February 16, 2009Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.
- William Jefferson Clinton
clock | February 14, 2009Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
clock | February 13, 2009The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps; does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born.
- Rabindranath Tagore
clock | February 12, 2009Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
clock | February 11, 2009The Officers all seemed very weary of this place I am not surprised at it: it must be to them a place of exile: Last year there had been plenty of Quail to shoot, but this year they have not appeared; this resource exhausted, the last tie which bound them to existence, seemed on the point of being dissolved.
- Charles Robert Darwin, Beagle diary
clock | February 10, 2009In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good it is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are now subjugated.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
clock | February 9, 2009When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
- Sir John Lubbock
clock | February 8, 2009There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen