Certain Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life,…

— Colum McCann

“Love drains from you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity,…

— Lorrie Moore

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

— Amy Lowell

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man…

— James Boswell

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

— Ben Katchor

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief,…

— Lawrence Durrell

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses.…

— Alan Lightman

“Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?”

— Howard Koch

Time seems to stop in certain places.

— Jacqueline Bisset

“Tip #2: No more alarm clocks”

— Mary Helen Conroy

Sleeping is my drug, my bed is the dealer, and my alarm clock is the police..

— Mitchell Sakundiak