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Day is just a collection of hours. — Serj Tankian
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind t — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming. — Sadie Jones, The Outcast
Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say — John Fowles, Áristos
When I do count the clock that tells the time,And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;When I behold the violet past — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the — Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel — Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The clock sweats out each minuteof what meat is left to us. — Joseph Bathanti, This Metal
The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the — Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s a monster that has always appalled me because of the number of thin — Jacques Vaché
They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time. — R.J. Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - — Eudora Welty, On Writing
The TSA liked having fresh agents on the job. Fresh agents with a clear mind and steady hand. Time travel wasn’t for the — Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
Time is drowning,Hearts are burning,Heads are rolling,Nothing can save you now,Tick tock, tick tock;Creatures talking,We — Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
Dear God . . . the dread hour is nigh." - Jace Wayland — Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Each of us has a cuckoo clock inside of them.For some it never chimes.For some it chimes only intermittently.For some it — Anthony T. Hincks
The illusion is time itself. — Anthony T. Hincks
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - ""I am NOT naming our ch — Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit