Top 188 Clocks Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

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

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

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.

When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.

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

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

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

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.

They're pretty accurate, the clocks in mobile phones.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on 'Clocks' on my discman, and I fell in love.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

I don't like clocks.

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.