Clock Quotes
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Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
George Washington
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cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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At first I looked at the clock and glanced to see if anyone was open, and I knew I had to take it, so I just put it up and thank God it went in. I've made big shots, big plays, but that's by far the biggest shot I've ever made.
J. M. Roberts
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The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, before she let them go.
Joel Rosenberg
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
Thomas A. Edison
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I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.
Kristen Stewart
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
Catherynne M. Valente
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In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.
Bob Griese
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
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So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.
Curtis Hanson
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway
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Kentucky wants to occupy some clock.
Billy Packer
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Thomas A. Edison
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
Emily Bronte
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Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
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The clock ticks and time runs out. Our founding fathers wanted to make it hard to pass legislation and it is hard. It's hard to pass legislation for a reason.
Eric Johnson
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Casting is great fun, except for the business of it. I love the casting process. I love the editing process. I love working with the music. And even prep is very exciting. But once you get there and the clock is ticking, all it is is stress.
Todd Solondz
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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.
Ray Bradbury
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
Emile Chartier
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With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
Jhumpa Lahiri
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As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.
Euny Hong
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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
William Shakespeare
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If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.
Dan Halutz