Quotes About Clocks

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

As he listened to the two voices he was so attached to and thought back to the afternoon, the striking of the clocks, the easy, pleasant company, the walk round the shore, with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness.

Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.

We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.

The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we're not careful we might be remembered as the country who arrived to late.

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

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

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

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

And she would feel that sharp loneliness she had felt every long evening since she was a child. It was the kind of loneliness that made clocks seem slow and loud and made voices sound like voices across water. Old women she had known, first her grandmother and then her mother, rocked on their porches in the evenings and sang sad songs, and did not wish to be spoken to.

Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and day and night and waking up and going to sleep

We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.

Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband's client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.

The sunrise sky was creeping over the edge of the city in orange-and-scarlet striations, and the clocks were or were not chiming seven.

And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was the time. It had waited long enough. It was time to play.

here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks. And here is love

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.