"The clock is the most scared thing in…" — John Wyndham
"The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital"
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28 Quotes by John Wyndham
John Wyndham has 28 quotes on this site.
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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a…
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Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite…
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy…
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man…
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I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes…
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But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets.…
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen…
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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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