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There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.
— John H. Johnson
The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My rhymes are like shot clocks,interstate cops
and blood clots,
my point is your flow gets stopped. — Talib Kweli
All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.
— Marty Rubin
What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified.
— Rachel Hartman
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
— Kurt Andersen
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
— Ben Katchor
The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.
— Don Bradley
A world of ticking clocks and creaking floorboards.
— Donna Tartt
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
— Craig Clevenger
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
— Douglas Coupland
Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?
— Dean Cavanagh
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.
— Masha Tupitsyn
Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.
— Howard Mansfield
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, Spring back or Fall in.
— Dave Beard
People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.
— Matthew Goldman
Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.
— Paulo Coelho
Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband's client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.
— Sophie Kinsella
Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched the clocks to go extra-fast.
— J.K. Rowling
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
— Tammara Webber
We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.
— Stephanie Mills
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
— Cyril Connolly
We all live by different clocks and calendars.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
— James Rosenquist
Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.
— Terry Pratchett
No, Rae, the clocks won't chime again, these clocks have marked my fall. - Fletcher Green
— Kimball Lee
Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.
— Jim Harrison
I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. Stargirl — Jerry Spinelli
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
— Greg Nagan
How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.
— Anthony Doerr
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
— Henry Ford
Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks
— Dean Cavanagh
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
— George H. W. Bush
Alarm clocks were invented by fork-tongued devils disguised as gremlins wearing snake masks.
— Amy Kathleen Ryan
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.
— Demetri Martin
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to.Like now. — Brian Selznick
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You see, the lives of servants are not lived by clocks, but by the ringing of their masters' bells.
— Tom Angleberger
If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!
— Tom Hodgkinson
I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks
— P.K. Page
Why not get a job in West Yellow Stone selling buffalo turds? I could make clocks out of them.
— Jonathan Evison
Clocks are a poor measure of time.
— Robert Emmett
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)
— D.E. Stevenson
Clocks are the enemies of time ... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night.Tom Thumb — Lavie Tidhar
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
— Thomas Otway
Clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
— David Mitchell
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
— Criss Jami
I listen to the grinding whir of the clock, and the creaking of my listing bed, and the sound the phone doesn't make when it's shut off.
— Michael Montoure
You shouldn't be in here!
— Evelyn Winters
Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity
— Whitney Smith
Look, just as time isn't inside clockslove isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love. — Yehuda Amichai
My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.
— Hester Lucy Stanhope
Two clocks, two ghosts, one square acre of hidden mirror.
— David Foster Wallace
People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
— Catherynne M Valente
We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.
— Dean Cavanagh
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
Time is funny lately, nothing to do with clocks.
— Victor Lodato
As all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
— Julia McNair Wright
People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
— K. Martin Beckner
Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.
— Alexandre Dumas
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
— Garry Shandling
We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more.
— Junot Diaz
The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.
— Vincent Louis Carrella
Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.
— Dexter Palmer
Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn't either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.
— Grant Cardone
We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.
— Joshua Ferris
Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.
— Bart Hopkins
Tip #2: No more alarm clocks
— Mary Helen Conroy
Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.
— Don DeLillo
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
— E. E. Cummings
Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel — Dava Sobel
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
— Anonymous
Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.
— Hermann Bondi
There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.
— Jim Sanborn
And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades!
— David Mitchell
We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
— Mark Helprin
We lost the skylineWe stepped right off the map
Drifted into black space
And let the clocks relapse. — Steven Wilson
The sort of creature whose wildest fantasies were filled with ledgers that balanced perfectly, and rows of clocks chiming in eternal unison.
— Daniel Polansky
Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer.
— David Mitchell
