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• There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

  Maryrose Wood

  Alarms, Embarrassment, Alarm Clocks

  Maryrose Wood (2010). “The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

  Derek Webb

  Would Be, News, Sin

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• Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

  Katherine Heigl

  Kids, Sacrifice, Night

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• I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

  Lil Wayne

  Get Money

  Song: John, Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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• I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Stuff

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Science, Historical

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. They’re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.

  Sam Kean

  Running, Independent, People

  Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House

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• The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Trying, May

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• That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Clock Is Ticking, Window

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• The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

  Alexander Pope

  Government, Order, Pieces

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

  Jimmy Durante

  Morning, Children, Couple

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• I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Hiking, Shade

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

  Abraham Pais

  Morning, Writing, Night

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• It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.

  Bob Saget

  Jobs, Dirty, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archieloved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered,nothing was lost. History was never revised orreinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid andas simple as the encrusted egg on the clock.

  Zadie Smith

  Love, Simple, Years

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• Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Wind, Another Day

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.126, Cornell University Press

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• A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

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• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

  Richard Adams

  People, Bird, Records

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.112, Oneworld Publications

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• Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Real, Limits, Use

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• I suffer mornings most of all
  I feel so powerless and small
  By ten o'clock I'm back in bed
  Fighting the jury in my head

  Amanda Palmer

  Morning, Fighting, Suffering

  Song: Have to Drive

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• In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

  Boris Johnson

  Journey, Want, London

  "Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch", www.london-se1.co.uk. July 30, 2010.

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• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• Even a broke clock is right twice a day

  Kanye West

  Broke

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