Clock Quotes - Page 3

• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

  Gustav Klimt

  Weather, Woods, Forests

  Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.63, Book and Magazine

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• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

  Golda Meir

  Time, Memorable, Positivity

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• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny Love, Sex, Making Love

  "Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead". Book by Denis Brian, June 1, 1980.

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• The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

  Dean Koontz

  Hands, Pieces, Literature

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Years

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• No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

  Kyrie Irving

  Passion, Alarms, Needed

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• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Birthday, Angel, Wind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.214

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• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sun, Forget

  Ben Jonson (1816). “The works of Ben Jonson: With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir”, p.419

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• Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  Alan Coren

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

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• The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

  Heinz Pagels

  Machines, World, Pinball

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

  Max Lerner

  Running, Time, Men

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  Stephen Hunt

  Broken, Sopranos, Imitation

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• Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Forever, News

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Time, Artist

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

  Garry Shandling

  Inspirational, Night, Fifteen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Time, Hands

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• I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Thinking, Should

  "Aniston: 'You learn your lessons'". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. November 10, 2005.

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• We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

  Ralph Neas

  Believe, President, Voters

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• And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

  Roger Wicker

  Government, People, Safety

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• It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

  William Wyler

  Morning, Fog, Six

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

  Stella McCartney

  Morning, Night, Eight

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• Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

  Jane Birkin

  Mother, Mean, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  Cab Calloway

  Morning, Fog, Four

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