Clocks Quotes

149 quotes by 141 authors

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
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
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
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
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 steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let… — Lawrence Durrell
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I… — John Green
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago. — Henry Ford
sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them… — Hunter S. Thompson
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery,… — Michael Ende
But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. — Truman Capote
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
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
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? — Emilie Autumn
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
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
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand… — Kurt Vonnegut
Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. — Paulo Coelho

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