Thomas Mann Quotes

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

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.

I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.

Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Let's stop the startwatch.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

The bell that measures time is ringing

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.