Jane Wyman Quotes

For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.

I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.

I really like watches and have about eight.

I would feel weird if I wasn't able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs.

I like watches.

I sort of collect watches.

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

Old Time the clock-setter.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'

What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.