Clock Quotes - page 12

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. (Earl Weaver)
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could. View quote
Gail Porter
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream. View quote
Gary David Goldberg
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. View quote
James Lafferty
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. View quote
Jan Karon
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time. View quote
Jay Griffiths
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals. View quote
Jay Griffiths
Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start? View quote
Jennifer Crusie
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! View quote
Jesse McCartney
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. View quote
John Henrik Clarke
Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion. (Joseph B. Wirthlin)
I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don't think I will, because I am too fussy - my biological clock means that it will be too late. View quote
Julia Sawalha
I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things. View quote
Kenny Chesney
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.' View quote
Lili Taylor
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking! View quote
Luke Wilson
Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier. View quote
Lee DeWyze
I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm. View quote
Mark Romanek
Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.' View quote
Lia Ices
I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song. View quote
Matthew Underwood
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. View quote
Max von Sydow
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. (Meghan O'Rourke)
Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch. View quote
Maria de Villota
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. View quote
Peter Shilton
Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work. View quote
Richard Dean Anderson
There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once. View quote
Sloane Crosley