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. — William Faulkner
Only when the clock stops does time come to life — William Faulkner
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Samuel Levenson
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock. — Dave Allen
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 must govern the clock, not be governed by it. — Golda Meir
And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able. — Dava Sobel
Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead. — Angelus Silesius
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. — Bonnie Prudden
Life is one big question when your starin at the clock. — Bradley Nowell
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. — Robert Bly
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. — Vladimir Nabokov
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. — Bill Gates
Short Clock Quotes
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. — Pete Seeger
No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. ! — Kyrie Irving
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you. — Byron Katie
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. — Paulo Coelho
Set your alarm clock and get out of bed when it goes off. — Jocko Willink
Surround yourself with people who make you better and have fun before the clock runs out. — Joe Gatto
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. — Rodney Dangerfield
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison
If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? — Matthew Walker
Clock Image Quotes
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.
Body Clock Quotes
Exposure to sunlight early in the day, even in different time zones, helps reset the body clock faster than adjusting eating schedules. — Gary Brecka
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and
History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down. — Albert Goldbarth
The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians. — William Gilmore Simms
It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body. — Deepak Chopra
...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets. — Seanbaby
If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself. — Jimmy Carr
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises. — Anne Sexton
because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right. — Richard Brautigan
So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity. — Shelby Harris
I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma. — Agyness Deyn
Time Clock Quotes
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. — H. G. Wells
Time tells you what you didn’t accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result. — Tim Grover
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. — Elif Safak
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain. — Federico Fellini
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. — John C. Maxwell
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that — Simon Schama
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on. — Ed Mcmahon
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. — Osbert Sitwell
Clock Ticking Quotes
We all have an internal life clock. Each day, we make decisions that cause the clock to tick over much faster or slower, depending on when & how much we eat, sleep & exercise. It's hard to be perfect but it helps to ask: What would my future self want me to do today? — David Sinclair
Your aging clock ticks over every day. Science says the earlier you change your lifestyle to slow aging, the healthier and more vibrant you will be and will remain. Why wait? — David Sinclair
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking! — Luke Wilson
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. — Robert Lanza
Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried. — Kareena Kapoor
It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks. — Zelda Fitzgerald
The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up. — Jill Stein
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money. — James Lee Burke
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. — Chadwick Boseman
Alarm Clock Quotes
Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup. — Jocko Willink
You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun. — Dave Attell
Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up. — Ray Lewis
If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. — John Hagee
Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services! — Nellie L. McClung
No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me. — Eric Thomas
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. — Benjamin Franklin
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work. — Byron Katie
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock? — Zig Ziglar
Clock Is Ticking Quotes
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran
Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked. — AJ Lee
I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock. — Corey Taylor
Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri — Dan Brown
I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking. — Libby Trickett
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to. — JoBeth Williams
You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul. — Julia Cameron
The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it. — Peter Schiff
This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking! — Bill Hybels
The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. — Ernest Moniz
Stopped Clock Quotes
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world. — Tom Baker
If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle? — Colin Wilson
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime. — John Hodgman
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. — Paulo Coelho
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. — Unknown
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. — Thomas Jefferson
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created. — Julia Margaret Cameron
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop. — Lorrie Moore
No Alarm Clock Quotes
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. — Martin Amis
Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough. — Doris Lessing
I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it! — Jesse McCartney
A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all. — Stephen Hawking
I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window. — Jay Leno
The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off. — Summer Sanders
There is no alarm clock like embarrassment. — Maryrose Wood
Biological Clock Quotes
How well you slept last night and when you felt sleepy to go to bed, and how you felt on waking are MAINLY controlled by how early and how much sunlight you viewed before 10am in the preceding 2-3 days. Other factors matter but that’s the biggie folks. Non-negotiable biology. — Andrew Huberman
The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other. — Indra Nooyi
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? — David McCullough
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking. — Jane Lynch
No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other. — George Weinberg
Biological clock? I don't even own a watch. — Sarah Mlynowski
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time. — Deepak Chopra
We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman. — Daryl Wein
If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock? — Deepak Chopra
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh. — Lili Taylor
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
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. — Grace Hopper
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. — Voltaire
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
I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams. — Dylan Thomas
We lost the skyline
We stepped right off the map
Drifted into black space
And let the clocks relapse. — Steven Wilson
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
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. — John Barrymore
This is what I learned at the end of this long and very strange trip through the causes and cures of airway obstruction. That our noses and mouths are not predetermined at birth, childhood, or even in adulthood. We can reverse the clock on much of the damage that’s been done in the past few hundred years by force of will, with nothing more than proper posture, hard chewing, and perhaps some mewing. And with the obstruction out of the way, we can finally get back to breathing. — James Nestor
You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp. — Marguerite Moreau
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' — Harold H. Greene
Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo. — Georges Bidault
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. — Warren Ellis
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there. — Harold Monro
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. — Ozzy Osbourne
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock. — Viktor Korchnoi
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. — Woody Allen
30-60 minutes of bright light exposure may increase cognitive performance and alertness. Early morning sunlight, rich in blue light, interacts with the melanopsin photopigment in our eyes, which acts as a light sensor, effectively synchronizing our internal circadian clock. This interaction dials down melatonin, the sleep hormone, ushering in alertness. Concurrently, there's a sharp spike in our cortisol levels, known as the cortisol awakening response. This isn't just about feeling awake; it's directly linked to enhanced cognitive clarity and performance. Consider aiming for 30-60 minutes of outdoor light exposure in the morning for a symphony of neurochemical shifts that benefit cognition and mood. — Rhonda Patrick
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