Clock Quotes - Page 39

• Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

  Al Gore

  House, Energy, Needs

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• The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

  Harold H. Greene

  Morning, Trying, Evening

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• I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

  Herbie Hancock

  Watches, Littles, Used

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• So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

  Moss Hart

  Morning, Hearing, Hours

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Smell, Kitchen

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

  Bernie Mac

  Night, Breakfast Food, Nine

  Bernie Mac (2002). “I Ain't Scared of You”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

  Shirley Manson

  Doe, Want, Beats

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• I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!

  Penny Marshall

  Real, Phones, Mind

  "Penny Marshall talks cancer, abortion, reconciling with 'Laverne & Shirley co-star in new memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

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• I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Dream, Morning

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Writing, Roots

  "Marathon man". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2003.

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• Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

  John C. Reilly

  Morning, Fighting, Way

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• I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

  Julia Roberts

  Years, Long, House

  "Duplicity: Julia Roberts interview". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 5, 2009.

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• Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

  Ann Romney

  Husband, Criticism, Want

  "Ann Romney: the privileged housewife worth more to Mitt than his millions" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2012.

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• A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Art, Algorithms

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• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Christian, Years

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• I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

  Curt Schilling

  Morning, Jobs, Games

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• Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Morning, Mp3

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• I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

  John Steinbeck

  Taken, Hangover, Sleep

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 1, 1962.

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• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

  Aleister Crowley

  Opportunity, Men, Fire

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]

  Alexandre Dumas

  Thinking, Long, Laughing

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• Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

  Ray Bradbury

  Needs, Shapes, Nests

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Mind, Alarms, Watches

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Heart

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

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