Cause and effect Quote by Gretel Ehrlich

“Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time…

— Cees Nooteboom

“Clocks are a poor measure of time.”

— Robert Emmett

“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,…

— Raymond Quaneau

Time is what the clock says.

— Albert Einstein

“the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men”

— David Landes

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Shredding and slicing, dividing and subdividing, the clocks of Harley Street nibbled at the June day, counselled submission, upheld authority, and pointed out in…

— Virginia Woolf

“The clock of time is a wild child, one that can neither be controlled nor disciplined, it simply slips away from your hand while…

— Priyansha Vashi

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.”

— Tom Robbins

“We each had our own clocks on either side of the bed. They were old wind-up clocks from our Ann Arbor days. His was…

— Jane Hamilton