"A stopped clock is correct twice a day,……" — John Hodgman
"A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime."
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65 Quotes by John Hodgman
John Hodgman has 65 quotes on this site.
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and…
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it…
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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose…
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Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make…
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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Specificity is the soul of narrative.
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance…
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so…
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There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or…
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where…
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More Clock Quotes
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one of 1,056 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I…
— Erykah Badu
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
— Alan Ball
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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in…
— John Barrymore
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There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's…
— Scott Adams
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I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
— Lewis Black
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
— William Blake
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving…
— Emily Bronte
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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position…
— Albert Brooks
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
— Dan Brown
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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