Clock Quote by Wilson Mizner Download Open image “The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.” — Wilson Mizner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clock Halfway
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock. — David Coleman Copy Share Image
- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell—keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell—keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“A Cuckoo should never dance and a Peacock should not try to sing! (Acknowledge all the troubles and failures in our lives.)” — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it just in time. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
“if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.” — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing… — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep — Wilson Mizner 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
Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
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
