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• I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace." Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Believe, Hands, Ideas

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• Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Fiction, Down And

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• My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Yesterday, Bird

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Flames, House

  1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

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• When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.

  Paul Harding

  Heart, Grandchildren, Ribs

  Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.34, Random House

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• You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

  Abbi Glines

  Girlfriend, Air, Shallow

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, Simon and Schuster

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• Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.

  Joss Whedon

  Tired, Fighting, Years

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• A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

  Miss Read

  Drinking, Past, Sight

  Miss Read (2002). “Gossip from Thrush Green”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Morning, Piano

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• Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Hook, Dry

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Dog, Wall

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• Tick tock, this is a clock.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching Fire, Tick, Tock

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.

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• I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Sleep, Long

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.140

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• Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

  Alexander Whyte

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

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• Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

  Alan Shepard

  Airplane, Roger, Aviation

  Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Beer, Afternoon, Half

  R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

  Andre Agassi

  Running, Long, Tennis

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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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• 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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• Old Time the clock-setter.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Old Time

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 324

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• Lovers ever run before the clock

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Love You

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Full and Comprehensive Life of the Poet, a History of the Stage, an Introd. to Each Play, Copious Glossarial and Other Notes and References ...”, p.173

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• Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

  Grace Hopper

  Change, Education, Running

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Beer, Science

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.68, Library of America

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• Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Games

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• All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Pace, Function

  Ken Venturi, Al Barkow (1983). “The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer”, Atheneum Books

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