Clock Quotes

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

Down, Whole, Three

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Morning, Care, Until

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Cannot, Minds, Quiet

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

Governed, Govern

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

Down, Country, Small

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

Work, Necessity, Alarm

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Three, Late, Early

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
Henny Youngman

Money, Die, Four

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

Forward, Shall, Hands

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Morning, Real, Night

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore

Morning, Give, Find

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead

Love, Start, Late

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell

Game, Football, Baseball

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

Wisdom, Hours, Measure

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.
Paul Kagame

Power, Future, Cannot

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Before, Bed, Thinks

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Earl Weaver

Greatest, Game, Baseball

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Power, Morning

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt

Mind, Down, Running

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
Lewis Black

Morning, Nothing, Learn

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
Mark Zuckerberg

Someone, Next, Needs

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield

Time, Successful, Stress

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

Greatest, Game, Baseball

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte

Work, Person, Done

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner

Himself, Halfway, Cuckoo

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

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