Clock Quotes
clock | June 25, 2007We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
clock | June 23, 2007Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
- Lord Chesterfield
clock | June 21, 2007Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
clock | June 20, 2007I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' ... A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber
clock | June 19, 2007It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active it is dangerous.
- Crystal Eastman
clock | June 18, 2007I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work", because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.... The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- Andy Warhol
clock | June 17, 2007I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
- Rene Descartes
clock | June 16, 2007When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.
- Harold Monro
clock | June 14, 2007Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Franois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
clock | June 13, 2007The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | June 12, 2007No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.
- Dylan Thomas
clock | June 11, 2007A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
- Garrison Keillor
clock | June 9, 2007When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
- Alan Alexander Milne
clock | June 8, 2007Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend.
- Ebenezer Elliott
clock | June 7, 2007There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
- Miguel de Cervantes
clock | June 6, 2007I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live about a hundred years.
- Thomas Alva Edison