Clock Quotes - Page 17

• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dark, House, Null

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 60, 2006.

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• The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.

  Herb Caen

  Baseball, Matter

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• I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.

  Margaret Drabble

  Positive, Baby, Morning

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• Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden

  Strong, Lying, Work

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• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Play, Boards, Opponents

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• I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

  Jesse McCartney

  Mom, Hard Times, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Fun, Kids

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• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Creativity, Garbage Cans

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• To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Reading, Trade

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Morning, Mean, Opportunity

  Quoted in E. A. de Las Cases, Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) (entry for 4 - 5 Dec. 1815)

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• I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Fall, Love You

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• As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Morning, Mean

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• Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves.

  John Muir

  Stress, Dust, Hot

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.558, e-artnow

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• In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Thinking, Phones

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• You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Advice, Grace

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• My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

  Ann Landers

  Women, Looks, Recipes

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• I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

  Ray Davies

  Work, Eye, Sitting

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• No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

  Eric Thomas

  Passion, Mma, Alarms

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2015

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• I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

  Kamasi Washington

  Morning, Dad, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

  Goldie

  Thinking, Understanding, Age

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• An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Monday, Philosophy, Believe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Grief, Cutting

  "Funeral Blues" l. 1 (1936)

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• Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had to be cut to fit the allotted time. I am happy to provide this elaboration to correct the record.

  Jack Miles

  Cutting, Records, Radio

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• Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "The Joys of Losing". jewishworldreview.com. April 23, 2010.

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