Clock Quotes
clock | February 7, 2009A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
- Robert Charles Benchley
clock | February 6, 2009I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
clock | February 5, 2009It is not at all uncommon for someone to arrive at a scene of brutality or injustice and, with a sympathetic murmur or heroic flourish, attack the victim. It happens all the time.
- Renata Adler
clock | February 3, 2009 If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
clock | February 2, 2009Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs.
- Will Durant
clock | February 1, 2009Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time.
- Seneca
clock | February 1, 2009Long-time readers of this blog remember that, some years ago, I did a nifty little study on the Influence of Light Cycle on Dominance Status and Aggression in Crayfish. The department has moved to a new building, the crayfish lab is gone, I am out of science, so chances of following up on that study are very low. And what we did was too small even for a Least Publishable Unit, so, in order to have the scientific community aware of our results, I posted them (with agreement from my co-authors) on my blog. So, although I myself am unlikely to continue studying the relationship between the…
clock | January 31, 2009The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- Robert Peel
clock | January 30, 2009I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
clock | January 29, 2009We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
- Nathan M. Pusey
clock | January 28, 2009I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
- Nikola Tesla
clock | January 27, 2009Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
clock | January 26, 2009There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)
- Richard M. Nixon
clock | January 25, 2009Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
- Vilfredo Pareto
clock | January 24, 2009The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
- Dan Rather
clock | January 23, 2009Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
- Margaret B. Johnstone
clock | January 22, 2009Statues of marble or brass will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues ... But print and reprint a thought a thousand times over, and that with materials of any kind ... the thought is eternally and identically the same thought in every case.
- Thomas Paine
clock | January 21, 2009You'll eventually lose someone you'll love & love someone you never thought u'd find. People are going to hate you, love you, love to hate you, and hate to love you, but the ones that mean the most will always be there.
- Sex in the City
clock | January 20, 2009If at times our actions seem to have made life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
clock | January 19, 2009Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
- George Matthew Adams