Clock Quotes - Page 2

• The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Sports, Zero

  Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

  David Levithan

  Tick

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.187, Egmont UK

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• The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

  Ben Folds

  Reality, Waiting, Growing

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

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• The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

  Rex Stout

  Alarms, Trouble, Absurd

  Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

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• You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Spring, Wounds

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

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• The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

  Ernest Moniz

  Clock Is Ticking, Gas, Greenhouses

  "Secretary Moniz Emphasizes 'Innovation Agenda' To Stop Climate Change". "All Things Considered", wamc.org. December 7, 2015.

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• I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

  Joe Teti

  Thinking, Clock Is Ticking, Survival

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• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Hours

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• You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Thinking, Doe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.222, Macmillan

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• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sad, Depressing, Morning

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• A clock only turns one direction

  Nancy E. Turner

  One Direction, Turns

  Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.370, Macmillan

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• Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Time Of Day

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• This is your life and the clock is ticking.

  Phil McGraw

  Life, Clock Is Ticking

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  People, Certain

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• What time is it on the clock of the world?

  Grace Lee Boggs

  World

  James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs (1974). “Revolution and Evolution”, p.168, NYU Press

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Sun, Dimensions

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• There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

  Eric Zorn

  Change, Talking, Priorities

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• In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

  Michel Patini

  Getting Older, Aging, Cases

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• No clock is more regular than the belly.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hunger, Belly

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

  Emily Bronte

  Half, Hours, Strikes

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• Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

  Claire Danes

  Opportunity, Hours

  "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

  Ruth Whitman

  Time, Littles, Surprise

  Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.26, Wayne State University Press

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• Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.

  Bradley Nowell

  Life Is, Bigs, Big Questions

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