Clock Quotes

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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game. — Earl Weaver
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.… — Orson Welles
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness… — A. N. Wilson
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look… — Dave Winfield
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. — Kristin Armstrong
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. — Henny Youngman
I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. — Mark Zuckerberg
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of… — Douglas Rushkoff
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a… — Douglas Rushkoff
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness… — Raymond Chandler
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct… — Voltaire
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell
Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans… — Lorrie Moore
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. Iâ€™m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of… — Jerry Spinelli
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book… — Tom Robbins
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the… — Edgar Allan Poe
The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For… — Gregory Maguire
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe,… — Haruki Murakami

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