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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.
— John H. Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
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 humanityand I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it. — Brian Andreas
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
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
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
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
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
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
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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
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
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
