Top Clock Quotes

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happin...

She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.

Clock Definition

(n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

(n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.

(n.) The striking of a clock.

(n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

(v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

(v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

(n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).

Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!

I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which t...

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that...

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

When I do count the clock that tells the time,And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;When I behold the violet past prime,And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;When lofty trees I see barren...

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love,...

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through sp...

The pull of lingering dreams, the strong, bitter tasteof morning coffee, the ticking clock, and horn of awaiting busform a powerful combination to kick-start the day

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at t...