Quotes about Clock
All our anxieties relate to time.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
— Graham Greene
Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.
— Anonymous
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
— William Faulkner
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
— AA Milne
Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.
— Deepak Chopra
And ever since that, the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, He wo'n't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.
— Lewis Carroll
Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgement.
— Charles Dickens
Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock
— William Faulkner
The bell that measures time is ringing.
— Margaret Atwood