Royalty Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly…

— Carl Sagan

“I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“For many years I kept grandfather’s church calendar with his notes written inside it. The words “Saved from calamity by these benefactors” were written…

— Maxim Gorky

“But doesn't every precious era feel like fiction once it's gone? After a while, certain vestigial sayings are all that remain. Decades after the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.”

— Matthew Goldman

“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before…

— Alice Muriel Williamson

“The often heard lament, “I have so little time,” gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance. Everyone has…

— Kathleen Norris

“Realism: A post dadaist yearning for the ontological validation of domestic miseries and bygone centuries.”

— Carol Novack

“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings of a…

— Alain de Botton

“I was attuned to the rhythms of the earth and sky in ways that I had not been before I lived in a time…

— deborah harkness

“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty