Clock Quotations

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Id never choose to turn the clock back.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

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

Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

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

Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'

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

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

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

We've already got things lined up, and we'll be rocking and rolling the minute the clock strikes midnight.

We are aggressively pursuing this around the clock and we are making progress in the case,

We are losing a race against the clock in the small villages,

We're in a time where the clock is moving much more quickly on GM. I think they're fortunate to have Jerry because this thing is going to be played out in the next six months, not the next five years.

When we defend well and create opportunities on offense, that's really our recipe for success. Once again we had great activity and pressure on the ball. We matured a little bit tonight, we had a greater sense of gamesmanship and clock management toward the end. We saw some good things from the whole team.

We got up on them and killed the clock pretty good. They sat back in their zone and gave us the three any time we wanted it, so why not wait until late into the shot clock to take it. We took good shots, but sometimes the long ball won't go in.

We are getting our clock cleaned by China.

What's needed is more public awareness of how late the hour is, ... There are labs in the U.S. working 'round the clock to get to where South Korea is.

We're racing the clock in terms of possible injury. We're racing the clock in terms of illness, and we're racing the clock to get them food and water.

We knew they would have to hit a three to tie. We defended really well. We thought Anthony had matched up the best on No. 30 (Adams) and he couldn't have defended any better. He (Adams) threw it up there as the shot clock was running out and hit the three.

Very dramatic. As exciting as it can be. A wonderful day for college football. It's something we'll never forget. For an energy junkie like me, it can't get any better than that. To be challenged to the last tick of the clock is really special for me.

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

We're still racing against the clock and we need to get more helicopters, more water, more tents and more money.

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock

We were a smash-mouth team. We'd dink and dunk you down the field and every once in a while we'd go for the big play. We were very conservative, working the clock all the time.

We were trying to take time off the clock and we made some bad plays. They scored and we panicked.

We were traversing across a snow field and he was ahead of me and then the avalanche broke above him, and just took him away and, you know, you're always running against the clock in a situation like this and I tried to do my best. I found him and he was still alive, eventually the doctor got there and it was out of my hands at that point.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

We decided Phillip was one of the premier people we would go after, and when the clock struck 12, it was fast paced. We got him on the plane and worked hard to sign him.

We thought we could run on Churchill. We thought we could break pressure and get some easy scores. ... Normally, we would run some clock at the end of the game, but when we tried to, it got real physical and it looked like the officials weren't going to call anything, so we kept attacking and we got a couple of baskets at the end that helped seal it for us.

We ran that spread offense pretty well, I thought. We got some good shots out of that and it is designed to take time off the clock and to get good shots.

We had no shot of making that one. You have 1.26 seconds and (holder) B.J. (Sander) has a clock in his head, as do I, and the snap came back way behind him. He was trying to rush to get it around and when it's that far off, you kind of lose the bearing on where the spot is.

We didn't want to score too quick because it would have given (quarterback Adam Sanchez) enough time to maybe go down and score and a 2-point conversion to tie it. So we had some plays to just run the clock down.

We didn't use the (shot) clock real well. Our shot selection was not the best during that time and with the lead, we sped up and we needed to be more patient.

We've seen growing awareness of film preservation, yet the deterioration and eventual disappearance of films have not come to an end. There's still a race against the clock to save what we can at some point.

We've seen claims in the last month that they didn't know until July of this year, and now you're working around the clock to find out what's wrong, ... That's rubbish.  You knew you had a problem a long time ago. You had recalls in 18 countries.  This committee's staff has uncovered memos going back to 1997 where you knew you had a problem and you didn't do anything about it.

We have reporters at every professional game, ... so we have to have people at the office around the clock to handle that data.

There is clearly a sense of urgency, the clock continues to tick, the negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in the light of the date of the summit, which was announced well in advance and Annan is concerned the work might not be done.

We usually have a 24-hour rule to celebrate or pout after a game. We moved the clock up a little bit. They were jubilant on the floor, but by the time we got back to the locker room, they were looking at me like what do we need to do next.

The poorest, sickest and oldest Americans face grave risk of losing their life-saving medications once the clock strikes 12 on New Year's.

God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

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

We're gonna rock around the clock.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

When you coach against him, you feel like he's getting all the calls because he's working the refs so hard. It seems like he's always whining to the refs and falling on the ground, and he's got the clock operator in his back pocket. But it's fun to play and coach against Coach Marcum's team, because you know it's going to be a battle.

When they started to score points for tilting people to their back, the game opened up. Fans could see some great moves by kids on their feet. The riding clock was out and it was more exciting.

The pixel clock has increased to about 100 MHz, resulting in the need for amplifiers and multiplexers with a bandwidth of 1 GHz.

Like everyone in America, we're a little thin particularly on the defensive side. So we'll have to limit things on Saturday. We still hope to have a game format with a running clock and so forth. If we hold up we should be able to get that done. If we get a little more banged up we may have to adjust.

Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn't been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.

She was very intense, very quick and clearly liked to play. Trying to harness that (speed and intensity) sometimes was the hardest thing. She'd get going so fast, she'd clean the clock of somebody and have no idea she hit them. She wasn't dirty; she'd just come up on somebody faster than she realized.

She would come in real early in the morning and sleep in a booth with a wind-up alarm clock so she could get up in time to start making them breakfast.

She said she needed help balancing her check book. And, there was the lady who apparently had a clock that didn't work very well. She called every day for a while, asking what time it was so she could reset her clock.

Shortly before the clock strikes 12, everyone is invited onto the rink. We hand out noisemakers and at midnight, everyone yells, makes a lot of noise and we drop balloons onto the crowd. It's a lot of fun for everyone.

One of the things we wanted to do (against Tech) was use the clock when we got over the ball so we could determine which one of the defenses had been employed against us, ... We did not get to the ball quick enough, and that's something we've got to do better next week.

No one had ever labeled the components to follow them over time, to see one clock as it ticks away in a single cell. All the biochemistry and molecular biology that had been done on this had been piecing together information from dead flies.

No one knows how quickly the extension to the CBA will happen. It will be really interesting to see how the issues get resolved, because the peace and harmony that has helped to make the NFL so popular is very much on tenuous ground. The clock is definitely ticking.

No one can predict what might, or might not, happen once the clock ticks past midnight this New Year's Eve. The only certainty is that this January 1 deadline cannot be extended.

My guess is that water got in it. I think initially exposure to the elements was to blame. The clock was also battery-operated and it stopped because of that, too. Still, its an icon downtown.

Oakmont slowed down the game and ran down the shot clock on every possession. We did a good job in the second half, holding them to 11 points.

Now our highway people who have been working around the clock are stepping in, but they're not specialists.

Plus, he had the presence of mind to stay in bounds and keep the clock moving. Incredible.

I was surprised that they just let me wind the clock down and take a shot. I told my teammates that I was going to wind it down. ... I was hoping if I did miss, the ball would bounce and the time would run out.

If we get that going, then we'll be moving the ball effectively and taking some time off the clock as well.

If we get our trap going inside, it helps us a lot. We thought we'd run the ball, eat up the clock and keep their offense off the field because they have some good athletes on offense.