Clock Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.”

— Mary Lascelles

“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

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

— Susan Glaspell

“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

“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So the clock…

— Peter Høeg

“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.”

— Don Bradley

“He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare…

— Ken Kesey

“Anyway, time is more than counting days. On the outside, people think clocks tell them the time. They set an alarm for work and…

— Rene Denfeld

“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

“The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the…

— Tod Wodicka

“And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was…

— Scott Thomas