Timepieces Quotes

• A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

  Ian Fleming

  Choices, Gentleman, Suits

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• I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Beautiful, Phones, People

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• If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

  Ross Kemp

  Weakness, Ifs

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• Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

  Maurice Chevalier

  People, Pieces, Rolex

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• A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

  Brian McKnight

  Money, Successful, Gentleman

  "Celebrity Collector: Brian McKnight". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.

  Dava Sobel

  Able, Tides, Heartbeat

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• I don't care about the past.

  Eric Cantona

  Past, Care, Four Agreements

  "Attack on fan was a 'dream' for supporters, admits Eric Cantona" by Gregg Roughley, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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• This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

  Stephen Hawking

  Time, Moving, Two

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• How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Light, People, Coffins

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How did her life live itself without her.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

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