Clock Quotes - Page 24

• Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

  Guy Finley

  Running, Sadness, Hands

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 07, 2014

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• The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

  Craig Callender

  Time, Pieces, May

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• In spring when maple buds are red,
  We turn the clock an hour ahead;
  Which means, each April that arrives,
  We lose an hour out of our lives.
  
  Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks
  Fly southward, back we turn the clocks,
  And so regain a lovely thing
  That missing hour we lost in spring.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Spring, Mean, Autumn

  Phyllis McGinley, “Daylight Savings Time”

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• Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Liars, Men, News

  "Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• (About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll race in the 100-meter final at 3:45 on Saturday.

  Trey Hardee

  Athlete, Race, Finals

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• When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
  And the brown bee drones in the rose,
  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
  And summer is near its close,
  It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane;
  And dusk, and dew, and home again!

  Madison Cawein

  Summer, Home, Rose

  Madison Julius Cawein, “In The Lane”

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• A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Time Zones, Balls

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• All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

  George Washington Carver

  Prayer, Order, Giving

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• So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Airports, Light

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• Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Space, Flying, Use

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

  William Penn

  Men, Giving, Voting

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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• My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Science, Animal

  "New Science Theory". Book by Vincent Wilmot, p.68,

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• [Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.

  Marin Mersenne

  Spring, Science, Animal

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• Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Clock Is Ticking, Priorities

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• OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Pride, Envy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Hungry, Seven

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• He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Work, Night

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.594, Wordsworth Editions

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• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, War, Humor

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• In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Space, Rooms

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.25, St. Martin's Press

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• If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

  Svetlana Kuznetsova

  Morning, Night, Eight

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• I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

  Charles Barkley

  Girl, Watches, Stoves

  "Charles Barkley gives the 'American Race' some real traction" by Lorraine Ali, www.latimes.com. May 4, 2017.

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• I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Morning, Taken, Mind

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• A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Cutting, Sick

  "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict". Book by William S. Burroughs (published under the pseudonym William Lee), 1953.

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• Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.

  Daniel Craig

  Morning, Fun, Garden

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• I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

  Patty Duke

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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