Clock Quotes - Page 6

• My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Good Morning, Father, Discovery

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• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, New York, Humorous

  Quoted in Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 1989

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• I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

  Peter De Vries

  Life, Morning, Inspiration

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• I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Money, Motivation

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• There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

  Ed McMahon

  Night, Eight, People

  " Milton Berle diagnosed with cancerous tumor", www.cnn.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

  Hans Zimmer

  Morning, Ideas, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

  Dick Dale

  Way, Ask Me, Asks

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• I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

  JoBeth Williams

  Girl, Baby, Clock Is Ticking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

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• I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

  Pete Seeger

  Income, Conservative, Taxes

  "The Old Left". New York Times (section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  William Hazlitt

  Positive, Running, Men

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.37

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• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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• If there was time on the clock there was a chance.

  Andy Geiger

  Chance, Ifs

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• A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

  Austin O'Malley

  Poet, Repeats

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• We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

  Paul Kagame

  Harm, Turns, Determine

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• Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.

  Chris Matthews

  People, Guy, Looks

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• The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.

  Dave Beard

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

  Craig Clevenger

  Time Flies, Rotting

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria”, p.95, MP Publishing

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• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  Patrick MacGill

  Home, Sight, Bird

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.36, Read Books Ltd

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• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Morning, Sleep

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• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Night, Thinking, Bed

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.211

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Sound

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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• Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

  Rupert Brooke

  Tea, Church, Three

  1914 and Other Poems (1915) "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

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• If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

  Tiki Barber

  Running, Games, Balls

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