Time Zones Quotes

• I'm always one time zone behind myself.

  Eric Bana

  Behinds, One Time, Zone

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• Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.

  Steve Martin

  Night, Thinking, Knowing

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Night, Journey, Next

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.196, Verso

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• The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

  Christopher Buckley

  Brain, President, Vices

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• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  B. W. Powe

  Technology, Land, Cities

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?

  Amy Argetsinger

  Couple, Long, Three

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

  Kerry King

  Sleep, Different, Way

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• A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Balls, Clock

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• Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that's something I have to sacrifice if I want to play music.

  Hiromi

  Sacrifice, Years, Play

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• The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.

  David Livermore

  Technology, Focus, Different

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Brain, Enough

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• And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

  James Gleick

  Change, Time, Understanding

  "5 Big Moments in the History of Knowledge Transfer" by Jason Gots, bigthink.com.

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• This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ideas, United States, Obscurity

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• WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Sleep, Differences, Next

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• There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

  Sloane Crosley

  Careers, World, Sometimes

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• I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

  Miranda Kerr

  Challenges, Pilots, Awake

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• I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

  Moby

  Sleep, Kids, Insomnia

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• Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Law, Numbers, Broken

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• Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of temporality of dead time, zones of abandonment and terminal exclusion marked by a loss of faith in progress and a belief in those apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure.

  Henry Giroux

  Loss, Insecure, Space

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

  Paloma Faith

  Sleep, Used, Bigs

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• Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Heart

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.44, SCB Distributors

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• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!

  Anita Roddick

  Years, Creating, People

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• On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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