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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

Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6]. — Billy Graham

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

Who needs an alarm clock you you have a bladder — T. Haque

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

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise. — Ruth Whitman

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

We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison. — Lang Leav

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

You taste of the sea, of clocks, dark nights, of everything that is soothing and prohibited. Of dawn in the eyes, falling snow and destiny. — Gwen Calvo

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

But promises are not clocks. You cannot tell time by a promise. — Anna Schmidt

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

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous. — Robert Aickman

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

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! — Ben Jonson

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

I like knowing what makes people tick and wakes me stop ticking, like clocks. — Jay Coles

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

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. — Chris Rock

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning. — Rene Denfeld

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 clocks
love 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

It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks. — Seneca.

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside. — George Eliot

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

One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks. — Seneca.

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 skyline
We 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

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me. — Flavor Flav