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Clocks Quotes (page 11)

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral... Charles Dickens
We live in time-it holds us and moulds us-but I've never felt I understood it very well. And I am not referring to the theories of how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow... Julian Barnes
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter. Louisa May Alcott
He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Goodness me, the clock has struck-Alackday, and fuck my luck."
Goodness me, the clock has struck-Alackday, and fuck my luck. Kurt Vonnegut
she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deeproots buried in the earthshe told me the old storieshow time never matteredwhen she diedthey gave me her clock Sherman Alexie
John Piper quote: "Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I..."
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) John Piper
Sylvia Plath quote: "If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll..."
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love. Sylvia Plath
It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it. Ray Bradbury
Come again?' She asked. Yes tomorrow, under the sodium street lights, under the tick of the clock. Under my obligations, my history, my fears, this now. This fizzy, giddy all consuming now. I will not let time lie to me. I will not listen to dead voices or unborn pain. "What if?" Has no power against 'what if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.... Jeanette Winterson
Suzanne Collins quote: "Tick tock, this is a clock."
Tick tock, this is a clock. Suzanne Collins
Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year! Ogden Nash
Tom Robbins quote: "A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time."
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. Tom Robbins
My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work. Benjamin Franklin
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade. Allen Ginsberg

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