Clock Quotes

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I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate… — Maggie Stiefvater
Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself… — Peter De Vries
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time,… — Beryl Markham
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it," he said. "I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I… — Kate Brian
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of… — Orhan Pamuk
I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen… — Lewis Carroll
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I… — Marcel Proust
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… — Thomas Hardy
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of… — John Steinbeck
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling… — Louisa May Alcott
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,… — Wilkie Collins
And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see',… — William Shakespeare
Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They… — Ilona Andrews
Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television. — Chuck Palahniuk
cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would… — Terry Pratchett
Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied.… — Steven Pressfield
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years… — Kurt Vonnegut
What do you want a clock for?â€ â€œTo find out what time it is,â€ I said. â€œI think thatâ€™s the usual purpose. — Jeff Lindsay

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