Favourite quotes on time and watches?
I was watching the film Beat The Devil, a weird little gem starring Humphrey Bogart, directed by John Huston, and scripted by a young Truman Capote. As you'd expect, Capote's fingerprints are all over the dialogue, including this brilliant little flourish from Peter Lorre:
"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook."
I think my favourite quote that explicitly references watches comes from Martin Amis' novel The Information, a melancholy observation that I like and that often comes to mind while I'm trying to enjoy my watches as it reminds me that these beautiful, miraculous objects we cherish and wear are also mementos mori:
"Your watch knows exactly what time is doing to you: tsk,tsk, it says, every second of every day."
The late Martin Amis is pictured above, I don't think he was a watch guy particularly but points if anyone can identify what's on wrist in that shot.
Watch obsessive who believes smaller and cleaner trumps bigger and flashier. Much first hand love for Tudor, Grand Seiko, Longines, Oris, Hamilton, etc. while pining from afar for Rolex, Patek, VC, et...
“Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.” -- Stardust, Neil Gaiman.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".
John Lennon (Beautiful Boy)
"Time may change me, but I can't change time" David Bowie
Richard Hell, "Time"
Cher – If I Could Turn Back Time
The race is not to the swift or strong...but time overtakes all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
“Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but all people at root are time optimists. We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if.‘”
A Man Called Ove - Fredrick Backman
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” - Douglas Adams
Time is what we want the most, but what we use the worst.
Can't reference any quotes, but my bits were sufficiently chuffed when TAG Heuer was showcased several times in this movie:
Can't reference any quotes, but my bits were sufficiently chuffed when TAG Heuer was showcased several times in this movie:
Ah. Nothing like a nice chuffing of the bits.
Okay, ciao!
Ah. Nothing like a nice chuffing of the bits.
Okay, ciao!
The 1mm difference makes the wearing experience SOOOO much better! Def worth an extra $10k!
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"You know they say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives." - Tolian Soran, 2371
Ticking away the moments that make up dull day
You flitter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Pink Floyd TIMe.
Kinda looks like a Timex Easy Reader in the shot, but too blurry to tell for sure
“ five minutes, nothing takes five minutes” Black Hawk Down
"I don't have time for this nonsense, man!"
Ryan Schwartz, last week probably.
"You know they say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives." - Tolian Soran, 2371
"...I prefer to think of time as a companion, who accompanies us on our journey."
--J.L. Picard, 2371. 😎
Just saw Spektator's response, LOL. A bunch of STTNG nerds in da howse! 😎🤣
"...I prefer to think of time as a companion, who accompanies us on our journey."
--J.L. Picard, 2371. 😎
Excellent! LLAP
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Parsely,sage, rosemary and …………..
From Ted Lasso:
Didn’t your last girlfriend steal your Rolex and sell it for drug money?
So what? I don’t need a phone and a watch.
“What time is it?”
"The future ain't what it used to be"
Yogi Berra
"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe, hmmm.
... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've watched see Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain..."
["... time to die ..."] Blade Runner (Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer).