Clock Quote by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Download Open image “I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.” — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clock Cutting Dislike Hands Life Pieces Second hand Small pieces Time
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 Copy Share Image
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me. — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together. — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with! — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art! — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“Time was never neutral and often felt dangerous. We either think we have all the time in the world or time moves too fast… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
“Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened,… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image