Alarm Clocks Quotes

• The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

  Rex Stout

  Alarms, Trouble, Clock

  Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

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• You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Graduation, Smart

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• No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

  Eric Thomas

  Passion, Mma, Alarms

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2015

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• This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

  Zig Ziglar

  Morning, Business, Opportunity

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• Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

  Criss Jami

  Alarms, Wake Up, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

  Kyrie Irving

  Passion, Alarms, Clock

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• I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Ideas, Design

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• ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Sleep, Blow

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• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  Pablo Picasso

  Work, Men, Alarms

  "Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views".

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• Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Alarms, Television, Clock

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

  New York, Coffee, Alarms

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• I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Stupid, Light

  "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Episode #9.31)". Talk-Show, February 14, 2001.

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• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Buttons, Alarms, Poor

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• I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

  Jack Osbourne

  Morning, Broken, Alarms

  "The Osbournes". TV Series 2002–2005,

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• Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Alarms

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• Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Strong, Alarms

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• That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

  Byron Katie

  Stress, Alarms, Purpose

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• By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Attitude, Addiction

  "Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, American Poverty, 50 Years Later". www.tomdispatch.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Alarms, Needs, Habit

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

  Kelly Link

  Men, Evil, Too Much

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.76, Small Beer Press

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• He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

  Martin Amis

  Alarms, Usual, Six

  Martin Amis (1995). “The Information”

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• It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

  Byron Katie

  Dream, Stress, Feelings

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.6, Random House

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• 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

  Song, Morning, Mp3

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• I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Alarms, Needs, Next

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• You know what wakes me up? A tongue in the ass. There is no alarm clock on that one, you are up, you are shaking, you are in a karate stance.....the day has begun.

  Dave Attell

  Alarms, Tongue, Ass

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