Quote by Robert Lowell

“A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once…

— Anne Rice

“The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.”

— Ken Kesey

“As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a…

— Charles Dickens

“Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.”

— O. Henry

“The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.”

— Nicholas Dawidoff

“The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“Time tick tock says the clock whirrling by never shy quietly pass layer upon grass until time has gone. than you die.”

— Kayla Dunn

“Old Titme the clock-settter, that bald sexton,Time.”

— William Shakespeare

“Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?”

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and…

— George Blake

“Before it had awoke to die on the instant of its waking, a score of bells and clocks had shouted midday and for a…

— Mervyn Peake

“But here in the open air, this naked, solitary fiddle began a rhythm that played havoc with time, making patterns that set you to…

— Kristen D. Randle