Clock Quotes - Page 15

• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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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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• It's getting late have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here, It's seven o'clock and I want to rock, Want to get a belly full of beer...

  Elton John

  Friendship, Beer, Boys

  "Song: Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)". July 16, 1973.

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• I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

  Jan Karon

  Age, Advertising, Eighteen

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• Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Negativity, Despair, Routine

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

  Andrea Corr

  School, Talking, People

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• One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

  Marco Arment

  Ipads, Doe, Reason

  "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

  Justin Cronin

  Morning, Writing, World

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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• People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

  Mark Consuelos

  Jobs, Home, Wife

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• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

  Criss Angel

  Morning, Dad, Kids

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• If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

  Jimmy Carr

  Home, Weekend, Eight

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Morning, Brother, Jobs

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• Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

  Jay Griffiths

  Opposites, Measurement, Facts

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

  Jay Griffiths

  Schedules, Measurement, Emotion

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Strong, Past, Alcohol

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• Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, People

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

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• Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

  Smokey Robinson

  Morning, Games, Wakes You

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• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Thinking, Player

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• I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

  Flavor Flav

  People, World, Fancy

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• There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

  Bruno Heller

  Avant Garde, Visionaries, World

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• 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.

  Mother, Games, Play

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• Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, Mind, Four

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• Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.

  Chubby Checker

  Girl, Boys, Rocks

  Song: Limbo Rock

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