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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
You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.
— Erin Morgenstern
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
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
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
— Lewis H. Lapham
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
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
If you pluck out my heartTo find what makes it move,
You'll halt the clock
That syncopates our love. — Sylvia Plath
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
— William Butler Yeats
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)
— John Piper
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
— Peter Shilton
If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?
— Deepak Chopra
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
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
He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.
— Markus Zusak
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
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
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
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.
— Emanuel Celler
Universe is the smallest clock.
— Vivake Pathak
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
The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.
— Jonathan Maberry
I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
— Jill Abramson
I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it ... so I just added "ish" to every number.
— Demetri Martin
Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.
— Robert Charles Wilson
Searching through Monster while on the clock feels like being on Tinder while still married.
— Crystal Woods
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
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
— George Washington Carver
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
— Charles Lindbergh
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
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
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
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
— Haruki Murakami
The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.
— Walter Lord
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
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
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
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
— Thomas Hardy
Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now - right now - later than it has ever been.
— Kenneth Franklin
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
— Pablo Picasso
The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.
— Vincent Louis Carrella
We are as connected to each other, as time is to the clock.
— Zephyr A. McIntyre
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
— John Barrymore
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
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
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
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
A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock") — Cornell Woolrich
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
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
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
— Sam Levenson
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
