89 Best Quotes From The Movie: The Watch

1. “Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?” 

2. “To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.” 

3. “Every time I wear that watch I feel connected to him. Watches have the power to do that I think”

4. “The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.” 

5. “The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.” – Craig Ferguson (Between the Bridge and the River)

6. “We are the artisans of giving birth to a product with a soul”

7. “In presence of the moon nobody sees stars.” 

8. “I was at the restaurant of a hotel and some people from Patek were sitting in one corner of the dining hall, while I was sitting alone in the other corner. I told the head-waiter: “Bring me a piece of paper and a pencil, I want to design something” and I designed the Nautilus while observing the people from Patek eating!”

9. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

10. “Tick-tock appeared to have forgotten all about both Brandon and the woman who had literally laughed herself to death. His brilliant green eyes had fixed on something which interested him much more than the dead woman.

11. “As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.” 

12. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

13. “Whether you're an idiot who's watching or an idiot who's dancing, if you're really an idiot, you might as well dance.” 

14. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie)

15. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

16. “We buy watches to kind of get kicked in the crotch in a certain way, you know what I mean? You go ‘oof’ “

17. “Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.” 

18. “All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.” – Marty Rubin

19. “Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.” 

20. “Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.” – Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle)

21. “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” – Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

22. “My father didn't tell me how to live;

23. “At the point when you open your mouth to talk, just two things can occur. Your words will either be for you or against you. There's in the middle between. In light of that, how might you be so careless and simply talk too much at anything and everything? Watch your words before you utter.” 

24. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

25. “Carpe diem.” – Horace (Odes)

26. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale

27. “I realized it's impossible to compete against American brands when I am blocked from using the same apps and markets. And yet I did have many American users buying from me. I was simply within a huge disadvantage when compared to American users. That's why I write that this idea of "you can do whatever you want" that many motivational speakers promote is a big lie. It really depends on your geographic location. You will not see anyone else saying the same, because either they don't know or they lie to you. But the people who want to believe the lies, choose to lie to themselves, and these too are many. They watch YouTube videos and Instagram influencers living luxurious lives and never question themselves about these things or why they are American and Chinese. In many cases they don't even know the so-called models going to Dubai are high class prostitutes.” 

28. “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” – Anthony G. Oettinger

29. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” 

30. “When you wear a Daytona on your wrist, you’re wearing a piece of art”

31. “Prolific discoverers watch the crowd but do not follow them.” 

32. “Time is an illusion.” – Albert Einstein

33. “Clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.” – David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)

34. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown

35. “In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” – Graham Greene

36. “People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they’re building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.” – K. Martin Beckner (A Million Doorways)

37. “…though I don’t like wearing watches, I do really like creating them!”

38. “I met Gerald at a dinner, and he introduced himself with the phrase, ‘My god, your watch is ugly’ “

39. “If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.” 

40. “The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.” – Stacey D’Erasmo

41. “Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them” 

42. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

43. “Watch them describe you to somebody else and see how it long it takes for them to bring up your physical description that'll tell you all.” 

44. “Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.” – Paulo Coelho (Brida)

45. “I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I’m not into sports watches – I like chronometers.” – Jason Statham

46. “People in your field, athletes, coaches, they’re watching you, and they’re encouraging you, and they’re pulling for you. That helps on a bad day.” 

47. “Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.” – Horace Mann

48. “It is sad that you pick a partner, have kids and then watch the person you planned to spend the rest of your life with fall apart.” 

49. “A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.” 

50. “Some don’t even watch art with their eyes nor with their mind, but with their ears, ever since they judge art by the sound of money. (

51. “Look at your watch. Don’t look at what time it is”

52. “One thing I love doing on tour is finding independent watch brands from the country I’m touring, and then wearing them for the duration of the tour in that country”

53. “What you see will remain imprinted in your mind and will have impact on you in many ways, 

54. “The corporate controlled media is a surveillance system.” 

55. “Race with Time” 

56. “Everyone was saying the world was going to go under and I had just felt that people were losing perspective. What’s important is the here and now, living in the moment. So, I thought, what if I can make a watch where all the numbers are upside down, and only the present hour is correct. The aim of which, to inspire people to focus more on living in the here and now; it has some humour to it”

57. “Time is the same regardless of how much you pay for the watch.” 

58. “Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.” – William Shakespeare (Sonnet LX)

59. “Money rocking and rolling”)” 

60. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama

61. “Knowing Steve’s reputation for having sticky fingers, I detailed one of my prop assistants to shadow him on the set and retrieve the watch whenever McQueen finished a scene. Even so, somehow one of the five remaining Monacos still managed to go missing – probably to Steve”

62. “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” – Haruki Murakami (Dance Dance Dance)

63. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

64. “Since 1987, when I got my first one, I’ve been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.” – Flavor Flav

65. “You observe, question?' he asks again.

66. “One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks.” – Seneca

67. “The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.” – William Blake

68. “There’s something one should expect not only of a watch, but also of oneself: to never stand still”

69. “How did it get so late so soon?” – Dr. Seuss

70. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

71. “We do not sell time. If you want the time you have a phone or a smartwatch, we sell an experience, we sell a way of doing things, a name, a beauty, design, techniques. So it’s our whole package about authenticity, which goes way beyond functionalities”

72. “Jewelry isn’t really my thing, but I’ve always got my eye on people’s watches.” – Clive Owen

73. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

74. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

75. “Here's my watch. If I wind it, it marks time. It exists. It is alive. If the spring breaks, it stops. It no longer marks the hour ...

76. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett

77. “When you see it in pictures, you might say that’s just a watch with diamonds on it. When you see it in person, it all adds up and makes perfect sense”

78. “The one who watches is always the one who is watched! You look at the mountains and the mountains look at you; you are watching the sunset and it is watching you! Look into the depths of the universe, the depths of the universe also look at you!” 

79. “I don’t wear a Tank watch to tell the time. In fact, I never wind it. I wear a Tank because it’s the watch to wear”

80. “You need to take the time to enjoy trying a watch. Because, never, never, I mean, never trust just pictures on the internet … try it on your wrist, ask the right questions to the clerk, to the retailer. I think that’s very important”

81. “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol

82. “A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.” – Ian Fleming

83. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa

84. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin (Phrynette Married)

85. “Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” – William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

86. “Observations, it is what scientists do.” 

87. “It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing 

88. “I’ve always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step – of making it, of a rite of passage.” – James Marsden

89. “There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.”