Clock Quotes
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We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.
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If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.
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With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
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I can take a grandfather clock to pieces and put it back together again.
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The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.
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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.
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In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
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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.
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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
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Id never choose to turn the clock back.
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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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.
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Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
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If there was time on the clock there was a chance.
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I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
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I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.
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Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.
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To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
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A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
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When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.
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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
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No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.
