Clock Quotes
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You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.
Sandra Cisneros -
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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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 -
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
Zona Gale -
Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.
Nat Hentoff -
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
William James -
I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
Sandra Bullock -
In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
Michel Platini
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Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.
Sarah Mlynowski -
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.
Brian Andreas -
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
Nicholas G. Carr -
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
Terence McKenna -
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Thomas A. Edison
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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 -
Id never choose to turn the clock back.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls -
I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
William Shakespeare -
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
William Faulkner -
You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
Catherynne M. Valente -
A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
Elena Ferrante
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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 -
That was a huge shot with the clock running down. He really brought us together, and we settled down late in the game.
Bobby Frasor -
You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one
Murray Walker -
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
Emile Chartier