Clock Quotes
clock | January 8, 2007When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Steven Wright (1955 - )
clock | January 7, 2007Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
clock | January 5, 2007In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
clock | January 4, 2007Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
clock | January 3, 2007[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
clock | January 2, 2007Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
clock | January 1, 2007Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
clock | December 31, 2006If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
clock | December 30, 2006An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
clock | December 29, 2006You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )
clock | December 27, 2006All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
clock | December 26, 2006Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge.
- W. Willard Wirtz, US Secretary of Labor
clock | December 25, 2006Animals 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.
- François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), letter to Count Schomberg, 31 August 1769
clock | December 24, 2006Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
clock | December 23, 2006I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
- William Shakespeare, Richard II
clock | December 22, 2006 I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
- Peter De Vries
clock | December 21, 2006There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel, 1883 - 1971
clock | December 20, 2006A 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, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)