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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson

Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do? — C.S. Lewis

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. — John H. Johnson

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. — Paulo Coelho

Somewhere in the shadows a clock vomited up a few sluggish chimes. — Joe Abercrombie

The cold knot of rage in my chest started beating like a clock, a slow, steady countdown to Alexis James's death. Tick-fucking-tock. — Jennifer Estep

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. — Lin Yutang

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks. — Richard Smalley

I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock. — Rafael Sabatini

An old, round clock, its one remaining hand ornate and frozen under the broken glass at a quarter past two. The — Kyra Wheatley

The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock. — Franz Kafka

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. — Ralph Ellison

I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine. — Mia Sheridan

She is the clock-guardian. I was thinking about getting a German Shepherd, but they don't blow fire. — Jonathan Dunne

If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock. — Neal Shusterman

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other. — Jerry Coleman

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality. — Diablo Cody

Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day. — Karen Amanda Hooper

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

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. — David Feherty

Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier. — Lee DeWyze

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen. — James A. Baldwin

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could. — Gail Porter

I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something. — Hannah Ware

Measuring time isn't as simple as adding or subtracting minutes from a clock...You must find your own measuring stick. — Lindsay Eagar

Reread favourite books as if you are taking apart a clock — Lemony Snicket

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks. — Zelda Fitzgerald

If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone. — Peter Carey

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room. — Albert Einstein

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking. — Gregory Maguire

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under. — Jeanette Winterson

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. — Tom Robbins

He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped. — Markus Zusak

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. — Susanna Clarke

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times. — Dudley Moore

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. — William Cowper

Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! — Lewis Carroll

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time. — James Cash Penney

My hunger serves me instead of a clock. — Jonathan Swift

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?"
Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight. — Groucho Marx

The present only is our own, So live, love, toil with a will, Place no faith in "Tomorrow," For the Clock may then be still." Robert H Smith — Darren Sugrue

...the devil's hour, two o'clock on a summer afternoon--the siesta hour. — Kamel Daoud

See the clock only when you have No work ... Don't see the clock when you are working ... Clock is a lock for success — Bill Gates

The train rolled right through dinner and over the sunset and around ten o'clock and into a nap and out the next day... — Lindsay Mattick

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled.

Not for a minute. — Joanne Harris

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul. — L.M. Montgomery

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it. — Brian Andreas

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour. — Joseph Hall

We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. — Cecelia Ahern

The clock moves on and hours pass too quickly; I was only a second in the tactful moments of life. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I'm one of those guys who would like to weigh about 115 pounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then go back to my own size about 5 o'clock. — Richie Allen

The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later. — Robert Duncan

The world is a clock winding down. — Rick Yancey

We are as connected to each other, as time is to the clock. — Zephyr A. McIntyre

The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are. — Vincent Louis Carrella

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous. — Charles Woodson

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. — Pablo Picasso

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. — Chadwick Boseman

It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood. — Jodi Picoult

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. — John Barrymore

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this. — Clay Aiken

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. — Garrison Keillor

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win. — Mikaela Shiffrin

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. — Luc De Clapiers

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house. — Al Gore

The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history. — Walter Lord

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest. — James Gleick

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.
("Three O'Clock") — Cornell Woolrich

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock. — Don Cornelius

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying. — David Nicholls

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable. — Alan Ball

A cheap, utilitarian clock hung on the wall; its secondhand clicked inconsistently - slow, fast, fast, slow - as if it were spitting out Morse code. — Anonymous

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king. — Ted Sizer

I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me. — Taron Egerton

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock. — David Coleman

Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked. — AJ Lee

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. — James Whitcomb Riley

The edge of the sea masks a clock that marks the waves. — Gwen Calvo

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean De La Bruyere

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath. — Ann Romney

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. — James Lafferty

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it ... so I just added "ish" to every number. — Demetri Martin

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process. — Mark Sheppard

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass ... — Beth Revis

As she walked, clock towers across Prague started arguing midnight, and the long, fraught Monday came at last to a close. — Laini Taylor

Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots. — Suzanne Collins

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed. — Ted Hughes

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. — Georg Buchner

Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you. — Dave Barry

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day. — Dan Wells

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. — Ralph G. Neas

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. — Ambrose Bierce

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. — Thomas Hardy

A broken clock is right two times a day. — Orson Scott Card

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.' — Leon Bridges

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision. — Zig Ziglar