Clock Quotes - Page 11

• Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

  Michael Frayn

  Moving, Hands, Sky

  Michael Frayn (2013). “Constructions”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and the Bangladesh series I can clock off for two or three months. It's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.

  Brett Lee

  Friday, Thinking, Games

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• Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep,
  with the dog at your feet, his head resting
  on a shoe, and the clock's ticking
  like water dripping in a sink - I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact,
  given the inherent cruelty of the world
  where beautiful things and people
  are blasted apart all the day long,
  I would never want to come back, knowing
  I could never be this lucky twice.

  Bruce Dawe

  Beautiful, Dog, Sleep

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• The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

  John Wyndham

  Sacred Things, Scared, Hospitals

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• I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.

  Peter Greenaway

  Friday, Men, Years

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• Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news.

  George Carlin

  Valentine, Thinking, Order

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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  I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Mean, Alcohol

  MTV News Online, 1992.

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• Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

  Roland Barthes

  Cameras, Sound, Woods

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• When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Watches, Calendars, Strange

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• Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

  N.D. Wilson

  Wine, Wind, Rivers

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

  Michael Herr

  Cities, Vegas, Feelings

  Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”

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• Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

  Donald Miller

  Matter, Countdown, Mines

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2015

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• The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Mother, Morning, Life Is Too Short

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• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Tunes, Variation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.

  Wernher von Braun

  Law, Weather, Space

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• I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jesus, Morning, Stupid

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• The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Way, Influence

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• Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Aging, Consciousness

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• We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

  Mark Twain

  Bird, Cuckoos, Heard

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• Time is a relationship that we have with the rest of the universe; or more accurately, we are one of the clocks, measuring one kind of time. Animals and aliens may measure it differently. We may even be able to change our way of marking time one day, and open up new realms of experience, in which a day today will be a million years.

  George Zebrowski

  Animal, Years, One Day

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• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Desire, Purpose, Betrayed

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• Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock."

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Pieces, Invention

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• I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

  Kate Clinton

  Religious, Morning, Gay

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from May 07, 2015

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• The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, People, Favors

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