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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

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

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time. — Erin Morgenstern

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

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

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. — Stephen Covey

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

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

He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands. — Michael Lewis

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

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off. — Summer Sanders

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

The thing had woken him up as usual, an alarm clock. as reliable and stiff off the ground as Big Fucking Ben. [John Matthew] — J.R. Ward

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

Fate carries its own clock. — Pearl Bailey

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike. — William Butler Yeats

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once. — David Frost

Do either of you know clock patience? You have to add cards up to fifteen? — David Mitchell

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

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

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

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

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

There is no necessity to live by the clock. — Patricia Clapp

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

God's love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move. — Billy Graham

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

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

Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now - right now - later than it has ever been. — Kenneth Franklin

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

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

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

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. — Rob Sheffield

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

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

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

Tick. Tick. Tick.
This is the sound of your life running out. — Anonymous

Seth's clock had been set on survival so long that he didn't realize that he was starving himself of an essential element of being, that of having fun — Kenneth Eade

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before — Jhumpa Lahiri

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock? — Zig Ziglar

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton

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

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke. — Bernie Mac

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

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

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) — John Piper

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock? — Deepak Chopra

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

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock — Billy Packer

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

I realistically eat every hour and 15 minutes. I watch the clock to see when I eat again. I'm almost upset that I'm not eating now. — Michael Todd

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

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

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

She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. — Robertson Davies

I looked to the clock, the one with the hands I could feel. — Aleatha Romig

It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night. — Carson McCullers

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

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

For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ... — Steve Alten

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

At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland... — Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

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

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh

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

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

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

an eight day clock. — Herman Melville

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

Wine o'clock was getting earlier every night — Jill Pennington

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

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

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

He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book. — Lauren Mechling

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative. — Elisabeth Rohm

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

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

Seth, it's seven o'clock. Nine in Omaha. Or maybe 1998 in Omaha. — Rainbow Rowell

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Sam Levenson

His grin turns boyish. Assuming you don't clock an angel for pissing you off. — Susan Ee

Again time elapsed. — Carolyn Keene

We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave. — Carolee Dean

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night. — Rosalind Russell

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

The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts. — Thomas Hardy