History Quote by Alice Muriel Williamson

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,…

— Raymond Quaneau

“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.”

— Don Bradley

“The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we're not careful we might be remembered as the country who…

— Athol Fugard

“Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time…

— Cees Nooteboom

“Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.”

— John McGahern

“We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.”

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“I’ve learned that most people never bother to construct time machines. They’re perfectly content to stumble through life, seemingly unthinking. They’re unaware of their…

— Shane Crash

“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare…

— Ken Kesey

“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.”

— K. Martin Beckner

“It's almost as if we're made of the same messed-up clockwork, ticking and ticking out of balance”

— Adam Silvera

“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with…

— Tennessee Williams