Clock Quotes
1056 quotes by 869 authors
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Time can tick when there is no clock.
— Anne Rice
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages…
— Charles Dickens
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So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates…
— Stanislaw Lem
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The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
— Robert Jordan
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But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading…
— Donald Miller
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In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend…
— Susanna Kaysen
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it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right…
— Frank O'Hara
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Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the…
— Jodi Picoult
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I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
— Anthony Kiedis
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Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in…
— Jennifer Crusie
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.…
— Alice Morse Earle
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As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's…
— Louise Rennison
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Hey, I'm going to Super Dog for a quick bite and to pass along a message from a dead guy to his girlfriend. You should…
— Darynda Jones
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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
— David Levithan
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Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his…
— Libba Bray
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This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as…
— James Frey
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