Clock Quotes - Page 5

• A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Waiting, Fine

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• Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Men, Hunting, Yesterday

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.143

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• I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

  Picabo Street

  Focus, Competition, Skiing

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• My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, People, Promise

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Guests, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.407

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• When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Sports, Clock Is Ticking, Clock Ticking

  "Benicio Del Toro on Savages and Licence to Kill". Interview with Fred Topel, www.craveonline.com. November 16, 2012.

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• The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

  Georges Pompidou

  World, Expected

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• The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eight, Differences, Today

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• You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Digital, Motor

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• I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

  Jane Lynch

  Clock Ticking, Heard, Biological Clock

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

  Dennis Miller

  Hands, Racing, Looks

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• The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

  Wilson Mizner

  Bird, Cuckoos, Cuckoo Clocks

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• Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

  Robert W. Service

  Life, Time, Thinking

  "It Is Later Than You Think" l. 56 (1921)

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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

  John Cusack

  Lying, People, Nine

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• I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

  Thomas Huxley

  Morning, Freedom, Science

  'Collected Essays' (1893-94) 'On Descartes' 'Discourse on Method" (written 1870)

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Food, Giving

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• Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Needs, Crafts

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night.

  Jake Halpern

  Real, Night, Light

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

  Erykah Badu

  Artist, World, Punching

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• And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

  George Chapman

  Walking Away, Earth, Volume

  The Tears of Peace l. 530 (1609)

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• My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Cousin, Gay, London

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• My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Good Morning, Father, Discovery

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• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, New York, Humorous

  Quoted in Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 1989

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• I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

  Peter De Vries

  Life, Morning, Inspiration

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