Clock Quotes

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It was three o'clock in the morning â€“ the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists… — John L. Parker Jr.
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. — Paulo Coelho
I loathe the expression â€œWhat makes him tick.â€ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… — James Thurber
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Timeâ€”the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,… — Ray Bradbury
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and… — Madeleine L'Engle
Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when… — Arundhati Roy
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a… — Jeaniene Frost
Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and… — Barbara Tuchman
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. — Tom Robbins
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years.… — Cecelia Ahern
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent… — Haruki Murakami
because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long… — Richard Brautigan
Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down,… — Markus Zusak
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime. — John Hodgman

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