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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
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
— Rex Stout
You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.
— Erin Morgenstern
I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.
— Jennifer Aniston
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
— Ralph Ellison
I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
— Diablo Cody
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
I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.
— Kenny Chesney
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'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
— Vijay Mallya
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
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
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
I looked to the clock, the one with the hands I could feel.
— Aleatha Romig
For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ... — Steve Alten
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ... — Steve Alten
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
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
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
I'm going to call you Rose, he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock.
— Lauren DeStefano
There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
— Eric Zorn
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
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
When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.
— Harry Shum Jr.
I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it ... so I just added "ish" to every number.
— Demetri Martin
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
I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
— Joyce Rachelle
But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.
— Jonathan Maberry
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
— Emily Bronte
The indifferent pendulum of the clock kept chopping off the seconds of life, calmly and precisely.
— Maxim Gorky
Sullivan had been gone for six months, and the ticking clock in D's head was getting louder and louder the longer Sully stayed off the grid.
— Elle Kennedy
I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
— Pablo Picasso
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
Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now - right now - later than it has ever been.
— Kenneth Franklin
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
Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.
— Dave Barry
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
— Thomas Hardy
an eight day clock.
— Herman Melville
It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.
— Carson McCullers
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
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
The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.
— Walter Lord
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
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
— Haruki Murakami
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
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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