Clock Quote by Tillie Olsen

That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking

— Anne Dawn

“My alarm went off at five a.m., like always. But instead of rising from the bed to go to the office where I’m a…

— Emma Chase

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

— William Butler Yeats

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

— Mark Twain

we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“My wife complained the other day that our kitchen clock almost killed her mother. It fell seconds after where she had been sitting. That…

— Various

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

— Anthony Kiedis

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

“My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.”

— Louise Erdrich

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

— Ralph Ellison

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

— Jim Peebles

“the clock is ticking”

— Chinua Achebe (Author