Quotes and Sayings about Clocks

"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."
- e. e. cummings
(Related: Time, Children, Clocks, Fathers)

"Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it."
- Michael Ende
(Related: Time, Clocks, Eternity, Measure)

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Life, Time, Being, Clocks)

"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
(Related: Life, Clocks, Key)

"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Clocks, Forget, Sun)

"Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain."
- Thomas Otway
(Related: Clocks, Man, Will)

"I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead."
- Garry Shandling
(Related: Love, Clocks, Night)

"Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one."
- John W. Vessey, Jr.
(Related: War, Strategy, Clocks, Enemies, Self)

"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."
- Kit Williams
(Related: Career, Clocks)