Quotes About Watchmaker

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

In 1924, at thirty-two years old, she became the first woman in Holland to be certified as a watchmaker.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

I helped Master Crawford, the watchmaker, now that his sight had gone and faded to a thin pinpoint of light. That were my favorite time. I loved the beauty of all them parts working perfectly together, a little world that could be put to rights with the click of gears, like time itself answered to your fingers. "There is a beauty to the way things work. Remove one part, add another, you've changed the mechanism

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

I come to think on that watch some more, and it come to me that God wasn't all loving. He was like a big watchmaker, and we were the innards of his watch, and this here earth we stand on is the watch's slippery surface. Once God got the watch made, set it ticking, he sat back and said, 'Well, good luck to you son of a bitches, cause I'm done.

Gravity doesn't just fight expansion," she pleaded. "Gravity defeats chaos, from time to time. It assembles worlds and life and thought. Gravity is the watchmaker, and it feels like it has will, purpose. It's the shape-memory of the universe, trying to pull itself back into a perfect singularity. It's futile, ultimately, but every now and then it creates a perfect node. An intellect. A true wonder.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Even as she was gathering herself, the watchmaker found something—something unexpected—that bolstered her courage. It was as if she were being rewarded for having resolved to do the right thing, no matter the cost. It was a very strange and good feeling, she thought, as she picked up the phone. To feel happy despite being afraid.

The pimp game is like the watchmaker's art, it's tough. Party went through his life struggling to make a watch while wearing boxing gloves.