Clock famous quotes

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you..
-- Abbi Glines

#Girlfriend #Air #Clock

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
-- Alan Ball

#People #Clock #Social

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
-- Alan Shepard

#Airplane #Roger #Clock

Follow your compass, not your clock.
-- Andrea Jung

#Compass #Clock

If there was time on the clock there was a chance.
-- Andy Geiger

#Chance #Clock

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
-- Arthur Miller

#Decision #Clock #Made

Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sleep #Men #Clock

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
-- Axl Rose

#Living My Life #Clock #Touring

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Planning #Clock #Hail Mary

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
-- Ben Katchor

#Watches #Strange #Clock

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Sports #Clock

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.
-- Bill Haley

#Rock And Roll #Band #Clock

We're gonna rock around the clock.
-- Bill Haley

#Rocks #Expression #Clock

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!
-- Bill Hybels

#Games #Way #Clock

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock
-- Billy Packer

#Kentucky #Want #Clock

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
-- Bonnie Prudden

#Wind #Aging #Clock

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
-- Brian Selznick

#Want #Breaking Down #Clock

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#People #Clock #Certain

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 #Balls #Clock

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.
-- Claire Danes

#Opportunity #Hours #Clock

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
-- Craig Clevenger

#Time Flies #Rotting #Clock

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
-- Dave Winfield

#Spring #Clock #Wounds

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
-- David Mitchell

#Clock #Disagreement

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
-- Dick Dale

#Way #Clock #Ask Me

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
-- Don Van Vliet

#Important #Mathematics #Clock

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.
-- Donald Miller

#Matter #Clock #Countdown

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
-- Drew Houston

#Want #Great Men #Clock

God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
-- Elif Safak

#Order #Earth #Clock

A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still
-- Emily Dickinson

#Skills #Puppets #Clock

Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
-- Flavor Flav

#Firsts #Necks #Clock

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
-- George Chapman

#Walking Away #Earth #Clock

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
-- George Eliot

#Running #Tongue #Clock

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
-- George Orwell

#April #Cold #Clock

Id never choose to turn the clock back.
-- Geri Halliwell

#Clock #Turns

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Interesting #Clock #Chimes

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 Hawn

#Age #Clock

What time is it on the clock of the world?
-- Grace Lee Boggs

#World #Clock

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.
-- H. Rider Haggard

#Clock #Almighty #Strikes

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
-- Heinz Pagels

#Machines #World #Clock

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.
-- Henry Ford

#Marketing #Saving Money #Clock

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#War #Law #Clock

The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.
-- Herb Caen

#Baseball #Matter #Clock

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.
-- Hermann Bondi

#Clock

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
-- Heston Blumenthal

#Fall #Waiting #Clock

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.
-- Indra Nooyi

#Careers #Conflict #Clock

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And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
-- James Lee Burke

#People #Waste #Clock

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.
-- James Pike

#Sunday #Hours #Clock

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
-- Jan Karon

#Age #Advertising #Clock

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
-- Jane Lynch

#Clock #Heard

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Morning #Body #Clock

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#World #Reason #Clock

Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.
-- Jennifer Weiner

#Worry #Doe #Clock

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Children #Forget #Clock

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
-- Jilly Cooper

#Home #Want #Clock

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.
-- Jim Sanborn

#Interesting #Berlin #Clock

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.
-- John H. Johnson

#Calendars #Body #Clock

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
-- John Hodgman

#Clock #Used #Sundials

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)
-- John Piper

#Answers #Hours #Clock

The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
-- John Wyndham

#Scared #Clock

Even a broke clock is right twice a day
-- Kanye West

#Broke #Clock

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
-- Ken Venturi

#Golf #Pace #Clock

Its five o'clock some where
-- Kenny Chesney

#Clock

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.
-- Kenny Chesney

#Needs #Clock #Juggling

I usually don't get this pretty at 3 o'clock.
-- Larry Gatlin

#Clock

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
-- Libby Trickett

#Sports #Swimming #Clock

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
-- Lin Yutang

#Men #Afternoon #Clock

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
-- Luke Wilson

#Men #Clock #Feels

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.
-- Margaret Halsey

#Competition #Quality #Clock

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.
-- Marguerite Moreau

#Morning #Truck #Clock

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
-- Martin Freeman

#Simple #Alarms #Clock

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,
-- Maryrose Wood

#Alarms #Embarrassment #Clock

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
-- Michel Patini

#Clock #Cases #Turns

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one
-- Murray Walker

#Racing #Digital #Clock

A clock only turns one direction
-- Nancy E. Turner

#One Direction #Clock #Turns

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Two #Broken #Clock

A broken clock is right two times a day.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Two #Broken #Clock

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
-- Paul Kagame

#Clock #Harm #Turns

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
-- Paul Schrader

#Doe #Clock

Fate carries its own clock.
-- Pearl Bailey

#Fate #Timing #Clock

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
-- Pete Seeger

#Income #Conservative #Clock

This is your life and the clock is ticking.
-- Phil McGraw

#Life #Clock

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.
-- R. S. Thomas

#Nowhere To Go #Clock #Satellites

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.
-- Ram Dass

#Exercise #Earth #Clock

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
-- Robert Frost

#Time #Sky #Clock

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
-- Robert W. Service

#Thinking #Clock

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.
-- Robert Walpole

#Watches #Clock #Persons

Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.
-- Sarah Mlynowski

#Watches #Clock

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
-- Shirley Manson

#Doe #Want #Clock

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.
-- Stephanie Mills

#World #Possibility #Clock

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
-- Stephen Covey

#Live Your Life #Compass #Clock

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
-- Stephen Hunt

#Broken #Clock

I work until beer o'clock.
-- Stephen King

#Drinking #Beer #Clock

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.
-- Steve Goodman

#People #Virtue #Clock

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Time #Clock #Standards

Tick tock, this is a clock.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Catching Fire #Tick #Clock

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Sex #Making Love #Clock

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...
-- Thelonious Monk

#Jazz #Clock

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Moving #Hands #Clock

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
-- Thomas Otway

#Time #Men #Clock