Wrist Watches Quotes

• My personal opinion...is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

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  Hans Wilsdorf

  Personal Opinions   Pocket Watches   Pockets  

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• Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

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  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Cutting   Golf   Hot  

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• When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.

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  Neal A. Maxwell

  Watches   Calendars   Strange  

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• Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl   Men   Ice Cream  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.29, e-artnow

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• Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

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  French Montana

  New York   Men   Cities  

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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  Albert Camus

  Knowledge   Responsibility   Intelligent  

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

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  Patti Smith

  Baby   Giving   Rejection  

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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

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  Roald Dahl

  Eye   Secret Places   Magic In The World  

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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