Clock Quotes

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. — Benjamin Franklin
If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no… — Franz Kafka
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the… — David James Duncan
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little… — Walker Percy
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at allâ€”steps to the refrigerator,… — Mary Karr
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot… — Thornton Wilder
- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape… — Ken Kesey
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down… — Robert Fulghum
Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight. — Groucho Marx
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest… — Robert Frost
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. — Emily Bronte
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? — Rupert Brooke
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on… — Graham Greene
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches â€” and I recall that at first photographic implements were related… — Roland Barthes
The library smells like old books â€” a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time… — Robert Bly

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