Time Accuracy Quotes

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

I am a stickler for always having to know what time it is.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.