Clock Quotes
clock | June 4, 2007Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle
clock | June 3, 2007The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
clock | June 2, 2007Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
- Margaret Visser
clock | June 1, 2007The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
- Margaret Gatty
clock | May 31, 2007The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
clock | May 30, 2007What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
- Georges Bernanos (1888-1948)
clock | May 29, 2007The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
- Nikola Tesla
clock | May 28, 2007Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
clock | May 27, 2007When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
- Shakti Gawain
clock | May 26, 2007Ah, Faustus, now hast thou but one bare hour to live
And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!
Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven.
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair nature's eye, rise, rise again and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
'O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!'
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
The devil will come and Faustus must be damn'd'
The tragical History of Dr Faustus, Philip Marlowe, 1604
(Thanks to Peter for this quote)
clock | May 25, 2007In a world where the time it takes to travel (supersonic) or to bake a potato (microwave) or to process a million calculations (microchip) shrinks inexorably, only three things have remained constant and unrushed: the nine months it takes to have a baby, the nine months it takes to untangle a credit card dispute and the nine months it takes to publish a hardcover book.
- Andrew Tobias
clock | May 24, 2007I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
- William Shakespeare
clock | May 22, 2007Is the plant [Thalictrum lucidum] sufficiently distinct from T. flavum? It seems to me a daughter of time.
- Carl Linnaeus [Planta, an satis distincta, a T. flavo? Videtur temporis filia. Species plantarum 1753]
Hat-tip
clock | May 20, 2007Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
- Motto of the Baltimore Grotto
clock | May 17, 2007Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
- Leo Buscaglia