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 its passage for…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Susan Glaspell

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with…

— Charles Lamb

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as…

— Haruki Murakami

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that…

— Brian Selznick

“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

Reality a clock showing always now. An event which has created us to create lands of living today in the cells of time we…

— Mariana Fulger

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

— Craig Clevenger

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

— Don DeLillo

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the…

— Jay Griffiths

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside…

— Ray Bradbury

“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