Clock Quotes - Page 26

• I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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• Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Fire, Self

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Morning, Book, June

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• I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

  Bobby Fischer

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be. The relationship of history to the people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child.

  Dr. John

  Mother, Children, People

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• We lost the skyline
  We stepped right off the map
  Drifted into black space
  And let the clocks relapse.

  Steven Wilson

  Space, Black, Skylines

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

  Jordin Sparks

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Writing, Cities

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• So, when kiss Spring comes
  we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
  lips because tic clocks tock don't make
  a toctic difference
  to kisskiss you and to
  kiss me.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Kissing, Differences

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• Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Fear, Animal

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• A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.

  Vicki Davis

  Time, Morning, Taken

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• Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you,
  Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you.
  Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught,
  Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

  Heavy D

  Rap, Men, Self

  Song: We Got Our Own Thang

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• Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Radio

  Song: Liquid Swords, Album: Liquid Swords

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• Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober.
  How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Beer

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• Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Men

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• The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Commitment, Reality, Decision

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• I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mistake, Grateful, Heart

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• I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Couple, Years

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• We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'

  Tom Ford

  Friday, Writing, Years

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• I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

  Asafa Powell

  Giving, Lines, Want

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• The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Burning, Afternoon, Crowds

  "The Goring and the Death" (1935) (translation by Stephen Spender and Joan Gill)

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• The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

  Richard Branson

  Children, Clock Is Ticking, Years

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• 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

  Music, Growing Up, Average

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• When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it.

  George Grosz

  Morning, Successful, Knowing

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