Clock Quotes

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The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. — Craig Clevenger
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked… — John Steinbeck
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical sufferingâ€”this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed… — Aleister Crowley
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a… — Hunter S. Thompson
Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me.… — Alexandre Dumas
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs… — William Shakespeare
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,… — Thomas de Quincey
I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can… — Kevin Brooks
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock — Charles Bukowski
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come… — William Faulkner
... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go… — Jostein Gaarder
Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine… — Harper Lee
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. — Martin Amis
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now. — Brian Selznick
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up… — Robert Frost

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