Top 25 Clocks Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Clocks Quotes from famous people such as e. e. cummings, Sandra Tsing Loh, Lewis Thomas, Brian Selznick, Matt Mullenweg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
e. e. cummings
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household’s natural rhythms.
Sandra Tsing Loh
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.
Lewis Thomas
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
Brian Selznick
In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it’s just nice to wake up without one.
Matt Mullenweg
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Thomas Otway
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Ben Jonson
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.
Herbie Hancock
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, ‘Wow, man.’ And I’ve been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
Alec Baldwin
I don’t like clocks.
Tierra Whack
I can’t stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That’s why I don’t rely on anyone to call me. That’s why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it’s the only way to be sure.
Spike Milligan
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
Leslie Marmon Silko
‘First Step 2 Forever’ is a hardcover, multi-colored monstrosity that clocks in at 240 pages… half of which feature full-page pictures of the 16-year-old Bieber.
Andrew Shaffer
People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
Jeffrey C. Hall
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right – as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
Joshua Cohen
The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on ‘Clocks’ on my discman, and I fell in love.
Sigrid
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Garry Shandling
If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they’re not touching one another.
Bruce Lipton
I’ve always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
Thomas Steinbeck
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.
Michael Ende
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.’
Douglas Coupland
I often set two alarm clocks because I’m afraid the first one won’t actually make me get up.
Kurt Andersen
I am getting old, so I really don’t like clocks.
James Rosenquist
Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.
Jim Peebles
There are more clocks than ever – clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second – but they all seem to matter less.
Stacey D’Erasmo