Clock Quotes - Page 13

• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

  Justin Cronin

  Morning, Writing, World

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Wind, Another Day

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.126, Cornell University Press

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• At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

  David Ogilvy

  Noise, Hours, Rolls Royce

  David Ogilvy (1997). “An Autobiography”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Worst Enemy, Play, Clouds

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Gun, Gambling

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• That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Technology

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.48, Random House

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• I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

  Whitney Houston

  People, Church, Cry

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

  Joan Lindsay

  Falling In Love, Art, Waiting Rooms

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• There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

  Maryrose Wood

  Alarms, Embarrassment, Alarm Clocks

  Maryrose Wood (2010). “The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

  Ted Sizer

  Kings, Educational, School

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• See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

  Bill Gates

  Locks

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• One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Rain, Winter, Simple

  A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

  Laurence Overmire

  Thinking, Men, Years

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• The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.

  David Berlinski

  Education, Moon, Miracle

  David Berlinski (2011). “A Tour of the Calculus”, p.119, Vintage

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  William Ralph Inge

  Running, Names, World

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• Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.

  Pimp C

  Texas, Atlanta, Doe

  "Pimp C Goes Mad On ATL & Various Rappers", uproxx.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

  David Cone

  Love Is, Hands, Games

  "The Slow Boil" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

  Tasha Tudor

  Lying, Sunset, Fire

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• For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.

  Lewis Hyde

  Artist, Library, World

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.67, Vintage

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• A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Communication, Home, Ideas

  Jeff Greenfield (2011). “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n”, p.36, Penguin

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• The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
  and I would not own one
  except I miss appointments without it.

  Brian Andreas

  Time, Freedom, Missing

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• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Glowing

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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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• The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

  Paul Schrader

  Doe, Eternal

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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  Zach Braff

  Sleep, Night, Bed

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