Clock Quotes - page 2

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. (Brian Selznick)
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. View quote
Sam Levenson
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. View quote
Dave Winfield
You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative. View quote
Elisabeth Rohm
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally. View quote
Jim Butcher
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. View quote
Robert Frost
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! View quote
Fernando Pessoa
In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative? View quote
Boris Johnson
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be." ... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. (Norman Mailer)
A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall. View quote
Thom Yorke
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. View quote
David Ogilvy
A broken clock is right two times a day. View quote
Orson Scott Card
There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed. View quote
Ted Hughes
At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time. View quote
Roger Zelazny
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. View quote
Ralph Ellison
While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. View quote
William Cowper
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means. (James Jeans)
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? View quote
Rupert Brooke
A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one, two, and three, may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you. View quote
Byron Katie