Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

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.

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.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.

How could I possibly have hoped to unite all my dominions when I cannot make these clocks strike the hour together?

Civilization is the common possession of all who will assimilate and apply its principles …. No race or nation can pre-empt civilization any more than they can monopolize the atmosphere which surrounds the earth, or the waters which hold it in their liquid embrace.

Every white man seemed to have a great concern about time. We enjoyed time, they measured it…. Hours, minutes, and seconds were such small divisions of time that we never thought of them.

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.

In our business, everything is timing.

There are two types of people in this world: people who can be on time and Nigerians. I am in the latter group, and I confess to my inability to arrive anywhere punctually.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

The Accenture culture is the same worldwide.

I can never be on time anywhere.

I always know what time it is.

I don't like clocks.

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

I'm not a time person. A watch is not good for me.