19 Clocks Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

You Heart Will Same Thing Pendulum Touching Beating Another Clocks Times Wall Same Cells Different Dish After Happens Rhythm While Them Even Different Times Swing Thing Start

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. Garry Shandling

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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

Life Time Face Few Young Too Other Earth Evolution Ourselves Thousand Thousand Years Threatening No Time Taking Parts Spread Still Years Covering Clocks Trusted Just Forms Juvenile Planet Across Livable Now Species

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

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! Ben Jonson

Back Sun Make Motion His Clocks Forget Engine Keep

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. Ben Katchor

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

Me You Looking Unless Everything About Magical Something Clock Clocks Person Happening Cannot Explained Interests

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is. Douglas Rushkoff

Day You Age Digital Analog Digital Age Our Sun Minute Some Absolute Almost Hour Know Industrial Clocks Duration Just Where Which Connection Portion Number

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

Work Science Out Take Dropped Always Been Clocks Apart Interested Little Them Gonna Used Found Thing Watches

They're pretty accurate, the clocks in mobile phones. James May

Phones Pretty Mobile Mobile Phones Clocks Accurate

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks. James Rosenquist

Old Getting Old Like Am Clocks Getting Really

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

Time Reality Losing Sense Way Kind Calendars Because Real Limits Sake Clocks Convenience Fictional Use Actually

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

Time Phones Matter Digital Cell Phones Telling Seem More Computers Clocks Than Cell Any Screen Available Less Ever Second

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