Clocks Quotes

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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.

Historically, when we have better clocks, we have better navigation.

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.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

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.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

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.