Quote by Tennessee Williams

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with…

— Tennessee Williams

“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before…

— Alice Muriel Williamson

“To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we…

— Charles Dickens

“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.”

— Don Bradley

“As we are whiling away days of idleness, time may flow rashly through the screen of our thoughts and veil the relevance of individual…

— Erik Pevernagie

“It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working, only to…

— Michael Lewis

“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's almost as if we're made of the same messed-up clockwork, ticking and ticking out of balance”

— Adam Silvera

“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.”

— John McGahern

“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