Clock Quotes

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

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

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

Day is just a collection of hours.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober. How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.