(455 quotes found)
“We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”
Max Lerner
“I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.”
Garry Shandling
“Enemy fighters at two o'clock!Roger. What should I do until then?”
Bill Watterson
“I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me: For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock; My thoughts are minutes”
William Shakespeare
“My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.”
Federico Fellini
“A watched clock never tells the time”
Proverb
“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
Golda Meir
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
William Blake
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