A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has enabled the Taliban to believe they can simply wait out the clock.
I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.
My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.
We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me.
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.