Clock Quotes - Page 16

• I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

  Christian Marclay

  Together, Way, Pieces

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• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  Flavor Flav

  Firsts, Necks, Feels

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• I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

  David Copperfield

  Friday, Believe, Night

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Dark, Ducks

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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

  Alarms, Wake Up, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

  Daniel Silva

  Country, Fall, Practice

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.

  Rob McElhenney

  Dark, Philadelphia, World

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

  Dan John

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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• Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Eyeglasses

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• A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, Watches, May

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jesus, Morning, Stupid

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• We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

  Mark Twain

  Bird, Cuckoos, Heard

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• Time is a relationship that we have with the rest of the universe; or more accurately, we are one of the clocks, measuring one kind of time. Animals and aliens may measure it differently. We may even be able to change our way of marking time one day, and open up new realms of experience, in which a day today will be a million years.

  George Zebrowski

  Animal, Years, One Day

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• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Desire, Purpose, Betrayed

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• I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

  Kate Clinton

  Religious, Morning, Gay

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from May 07, 2015

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• The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, People, Favors

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• Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

  Anne Sexton

  Nurse, Watches, Growing

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Gun, Gambling

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• The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

  Bel Kaufman

  Today, Moments, Tick

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• We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

  Chris Rock

  Daddy, Bed, Poor

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• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

  Lionel Trilling

  Thinking, Wrath, Hands

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• That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Technology

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.48, Random House

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• The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Waiting, Forever, Different

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• The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

  Ted Sizer

  Kings, Educational, School

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