Clock Quotes

1056 quotes by 869 authors

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped… — Don DeLillo
I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced… — Sophie Kinsella
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. Thatâ€™s probably as… — David Foster Wallace
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the… — Henry David Thoreau
Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun… — William Shakespeare
When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself… — Paul Harding
You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well,… — Abbi Glines
Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if thatâ€™s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting… — Joss Whedon
A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time… — Miss Read
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear… — James M. Barrie
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably canâ€™t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock… — Mitch Albom
Tick tock, this is a clock. — Suzanne Collins
Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction,… — Isobelle Carmody
Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence… — Delphine de Vigan
It would have been better to come back at the same hour,â€ said the fox. â€œIf, for example, you came at four oâ€™clock in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee
At one oâ€™clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors… — Frances Hardinge
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead,… — Alan Lightman

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