Quotes About Clock

Time was of the essence. For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time.

Ab has just walked in, mewing- it must be tea-time; that cat has a clock in his stomach.

the second hand sweeping clockwise as a constant reminder that once those precious moments were gone, there was no getting them back.

Tinha um relógio grande assim na torre e eu queria me agarrar nos ponteiros, segurar as horas, por que é que o tempo não parava um pouco? Queria ficar lá dependurado, segurando o tempo.

O mais feroz dos animais domésticos é o relógio de parede. Conheço um que já devorou três gerações da minha família.

There are times in life, little lady, he said, when we can only listen to the ticking of the clock of fate and wait for what is destined to happen. This is one of those times.

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real.

Time is the flesh and blood of death; death is not a skull, a skeleton, but a clock face, a sun hurtling through a sea of thin gas. A part of you has died since you began to read this sentence.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

A digital clock punched red electronic minutes into the silence.

Then: "What time is it in Arizona?" "It's two hours behind here, so about eight thirty," I said. "Maybe. Arizona is weird about time zones.

In the summer when the hands of a clock point to seven, it is a nice time to get up, but in winter the same time is of no value whatever. How much better is the sun!

Since the start of their affair he was always running, hurrying, creating time where no time had been needed before; he had become an athlete of the clock, bending odd hours into an unprecedented and unsuspected second life. He had given up smoking; he wanted his kisses to taste clean.

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought

The invention of the clock has altered human pleasure. There are minutes and seconds in the day now, and not enough for love.

Pero el despertador, privado de cuerda durante tantos días, ya no señala el tiempo, señala la eternidad.

The heart – a living clock that houses loved souls in nameless cities.

A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...