Quotes about Clocks

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Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray! — Criss Jami, Killosophy
The Clock on the Morning Lenape BuildingMust Clocks be circles?Time is not a circle.Suppose the Mother of All Minutes st — Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the b — Robertson Davies, The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks
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
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 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
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
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra i — Stephen Fry
The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are. — Vincent Louis Carrella, Serpent Box: A Novel
You shouldn't be in here! — Evelyn Winters, The Little Big Clockmaker
ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lig — Blaise Cendrars, Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques de Blaise Cendrars: Edition critique et commentée
More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have — Beth Revis, Across the Universe
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion.. — Anonymous
Alarm clocks are the bane of humanity. Sleep inertia, the decline in motor dexterity, subjective feeling of grogginess, — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity — Whitney Smith
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clo — David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opport — Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World