Quotes About Clock

The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.

A prototype is a question, embodied."60 Given a body, the question becomes harder to ignore. Nanda's question—What if a clock had wheels?—became much more compelling to people when they actually saw a clock with wheels.

The configuration in Example 33-8 works, but in many cases, routers might have multiple ntp server commands configured for redundancy. The goal is to have at least one usable clock source (servers per multiple ntp server commands, or internal clock as per the ntp master command). The router then chooses the best NTP clock source based on the stratum level. The stratum level defines the quality of the clock source; the lower the stratum, the better the source.

FIFTEEN MINUTES later

The clock doesn't care about time and wine doesn't care about age.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch.

To learn one's longitude at sea, one needs to know what time it is aboard ship and also the time at the home port or another place of known longitude—at that very same moment. The two clock times enable the navigator to convert the hour difference into a geographical separation. Since the Earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full revolution of three hundred sixty degrees, one hour marks one twenty-fourth of a spin, or fifteen degrees.

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.

Well, anyway, that's it, we just ran out of time cause I have to be done at 5.40 right now, and it is exactly 5.40.

As he spoke, the sound of a church clock, muffled by the snow, came borne upon the wind; it chimed the first quarter. 'Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. She looked at her watch. She felt that now was about the time that she could legitimately begin to feel cross. She was cross already, of course, but that had been in her own time, so to speak.

According to her watch it was shortly after three o'clock, and according to everything else it was night-time.

Die Zeit ist eine Illusion. Die Mittagszeit erst recht.

Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. This is so surreal, she says, I think I'm turning into a melting clock.

It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria.

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do. She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

pretending as they waited that time had no value and what a lie. A lie they didn't mind. They were on the clock, being paid to forsake time's value by standing under the sun like they had all day.

Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

looked at his watch. Eight-thirty. Way too early

In the brief silence, an antique clock ticked with a sound like stones falling off a ledge.

More time passed, the clock ticking forward when she longed for it to go back

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.