Clock Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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I can take a grandfather clock to pieces and put it back together again.
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
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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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Id never choose to turn the clock back.
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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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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
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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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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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A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
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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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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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To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
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Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
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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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Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.
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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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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.
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
