Clock Quotes - Page 29

• Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

  Sergey Belavenets

  Moving, Benefits, Chess

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• Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (2009). “Seven Discourses on Art”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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• Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature of the game, and a testament to the depth of Kariakin's preparation, is that when the draw was agreed at move 39, his clock showed 1.52 remaining, some twelve minutes more than he started the game with!

  Steve Giddins

  Moving, Games, Preparation

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• When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Time, Variation, Opponents

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• The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Morning, Three

  'Walden' (1854) 'Sounds'.

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• The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

  Miles Kington

  Luck, Owing, Facts

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, April, Cold

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Secret, World, Antiques

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• Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Alarms, Television, Ends

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Weekend, Smell, Alarms

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• Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

  Terry Pratchett

  Couple, Son, Excuse You

  "Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

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• Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

  Steven Pressfield

  Morning, Inspiration, Writing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.64, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Years, Three

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.209, Dial Press

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• What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Thinking, Purpose, Want

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.127, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.

  Megan McCafferty

  Practice, Class, Track

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.77, Crown

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• There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Helpful, Direct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and fifteen or an hour and thirty minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games.

  Michael Jordan

  Stress, Home, Games

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• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Sleep, Science, Night

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• His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
  There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
  He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
  To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin'
  What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
  He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
  He's chokin', how, everybody's jokin' now
  The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!

  Eminem

  Mom, Running, Rap

  "Song: 'Lose Yourself'". 2002.

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• I got these haters like, When he gon' stop?
  Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Minutes

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• Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

  A. E. Housman

  Strength, Luck, Towers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Ideas, Design

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