Clock Quotes - Page 34

• At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
  At seven all was still,
  But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
  The prison seemed to fill,
  For the Lord of Death with icy breath
  Had entered in to kill.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Cells, Icy

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.179, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

  Dan Wells

  Paranoid

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• Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

  David Mamet

  Country, Crime, Possession

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• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Friday, Morning, Writing

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• Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

  Demetri Martin

  Want, Today, Forget

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• Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

  Carol Leifer

  Baby, Thinking, Clock Is Ticking

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• In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.

  George Grosz

  Song, Dog, Morning

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• I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Thinking, Watches, News

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• You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wall, Redneck, Wife

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• I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.

  Rudolf Bing

  Morning, Night, Moments

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• I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

  Michelle Obama

  Workout, Morning, Bed

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.

  Joe Pass

  Morning, Home, School

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• Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

  Bill Engvall

  Talking, Play, Causes

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 28, 2013

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• Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.

  AJ Lee

  Phones, Eggs, Biological Clock

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• In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Eight, Dancer, Ballet

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• The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

  Roy Bedichek

  Literature, Growing, Popularity

  Roy Bedichek (2010). “Adventures with a Texas Naturalist”, p.288, University of Texas Press

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• I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

  Graeme Souness

  Sleep, Thinking, Laughing

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• The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

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• We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

  Lester Bowie

  Trying, Figures, Turns

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• Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Running, Wells, Setting

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• The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

  George Washington

  Sunday, Men, Example

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• The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Kitchen, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2128, Delphi Classics

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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• Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

  Samuel Pepys

  Reading, Book, Bed

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.464, Univ of California Press

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• It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

  Quincy Jones

  Morning, Boys, President

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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