Best watches & clock Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!”

May Stills Watches Clock Jewels Repairing

Book:Love's Labour's Lost

Source: Love's Labour's Lost

“It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.”

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Book:Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

“She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.”

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Author:Celia Rivenbark

“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”

Men Giving Watches Towns Insight Clock Deluded Wrong Time

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.”

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Author:Joseph Hall

“I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.”

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Author:Ed Bradley

“Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.”

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Author:David Lynch

“You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.”

People Ifs Knows Would Be Watches Doubt Trouble Dying Clock Batteries

Author:Ben Katchor

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

Watches Strange Depends Stores Clock

Author:Ben Katchor

“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.”

Ifs Littles Used Found Watches Clock Screws

Author:Herbie Hancock

“New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.”

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Author:Hilary Swank

“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”

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Author:James Boswell

“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”

“Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.”

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Author:Robert Walpole

“We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.”

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Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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