Clocks Quotes

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I barely have any clocks in my place, but I always have my cell phone with me,

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.

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.

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

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

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