Clock Quotes

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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington… — Carl Bernstein
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as… — A. S. J. Tessimond
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both… — Kit Williams
The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then… — Patrick MacGill
I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out… — Trisha Goddard
If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight? — Laurence Overmire
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period… — David Berlinski
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee,… — Gail Porter
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we… — William Ralph Inge
Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get… — Pimp C
I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock -… — David Cone
Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through… — Dean Lombardi
I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening. — Emanuel Celler
You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in… — Tasha Tudor
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life… — Lewis Hyde
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on… — Jeff Greenfield
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was… — Ben Hecht
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. — Paul Schrader
You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast… — Zach Braff

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