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Quotes About Clock

O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
I looked at the clock on the microwave. I was late for work. I find it difficult to move at that hour. Like there are ankle weights on my soul.
~ Jason Porter
How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.
~ Alejandro Casona
If the wave is getting bigger, it causes the time to grow a little bit. If the wave is trying to contract, it reduces it a little bit. So, you can see this oscillation in time on the clock.
~ Rainer Weiss
There's a battle rhythm, a body clock that tells you it's time for football. For me, it's always I know when I get my first football dream. That's my body clock telling me it's time to compete.
~ Jim Harbaugh
I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock.
~ Ben Schott
I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top.
~ Henry Ian Cusick
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The red hands had stopped at four-twenty-seven. He wondered what day they had stopped. As he descended the stairs with his armful of books, he wondered at just what moment the clock stopped. Had it been morning or night? Was it raining or shining? Was anyone there when it stopped?
~ Richard Matheson
A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.
~ Richard Peck
I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it, he said. I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I woke up I looked at the clock and it was exactly six thirty-two. I felt an eerie tingle all down my back and froze with my spoon halfway to my mouth. Really? He smirked and popped the cookie into his mouth. No
~ Kate Brian
Time flies when you're talking about wishes and yarn.
~ Kathleen Fuller
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
~ Willie Nelson
BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG!
~ David Walliams
Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me?
~ David Zindell
That night, after we turned out the light, the red digital numbers of the bedside clock stared me down. I tried to ignore it, but of all household objects, bedside clocks are the most insistent, more than beeping refrigerators and door alarms, more than kitchen timers and even blaring radios. It's the strong silent types that get you.
~ Deb Caletti
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The jazz band stopped dead. The clock's chimes launched into the lament of the Westminster bells. A terrible silence hovered. "Ha!" said Hildesheim. "Ha!" said Bobby Moos. Right then the band sensed death.
~ Jean Ray
You come from the country?" "You know that." "No," said Theron. "I thought you'd sprung full-grown from the University clock tower.
~ Ellen Kushner
They became aware of it suddenly just after four o'clock
~ Alfred Lansing
Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!
~ Alice Henderson
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
~ Regina Brett