Clock Quotes
clock | May 1, 2008See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams
clock | April 30, 2008I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
clock | April 29, 2008The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
- Roy Blount, Jr.
clock | April 28, 2008The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.
- Ruth Bernhard
clock | April 27, 2008Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
- S. M. Stirling
clock | April 26, 2008Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
- Samuel Butler
clock | April 25, 2008All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax or of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force…
clock | April 24, 2008There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.
- Stella Benson
clock | April 23, 2008The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
- Scott McNealy
clock | April 22, 2008A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
- Sidney Goff
clock | April 21, 2008The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost went back in time.
- Steven Wright
clock | April 20, 2008One must learn a different ... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
- Sister Mary Paul
clock | April 19, 2008Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man that has great advantages from nature and birth; whether the weight and number of so many men's thoughts and actions may not suppress his own or hinder the motion and agitation of them, from which all invention arises; as heaping on wood, or too many sticks, or too close together, suppresses, and sometimes quite extinguishes a little spark, that would otherwise have grown up to a noble flame.
- Sir William Temple
clock | April 18, 2008Politicians are quite unfit for government. They are however very useful for ceremonial banquets, official openings, launchings, unveilings, and greeting foreign delegations, leaving more time for the genuine work of government to those of us who have the proper training and experience.
- Sir Humphrey Appleby
clock | April 17, 2008Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- Sir John Lubbock
clock | April 16, 2008Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
- Sir William Haley
clock | April 15, 2008Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, it's not the time that matters but how you answer the door.
- Steve Gray
clock | April 12, 2008Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates