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The Clocks

«I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.»
Author: Garry Shandling (Actor, Comedian) | About: Sex | Keywords: ahead, clocks, fifteen, hour, minutes, set ahead, The Clocks, The Night
«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.»
Author: John Cusack (Actor) | Keywords: chunk, chunks, clock, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, looking at, lying, nine, The Clocks
«I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.»
Author: Golda Meir (Founder, Prime Minister) | Keywords: clock, govern, governed, The Clocks
«But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: began, chime, chimed, chimes, city, clocks, deceive, In the City, The City, The Clocks, whirr
«I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: bridge, midnight, stood, striking, The Bridge, The Clocks
«Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Work | Keywords: alarm, alarmed, alarming, alarm clock, clock, invented, necessity, The Alarm, The Clocks
«Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: advantages, animals, ceremonies, clock, cost, disturbed, funerals, instruct, instructing, instructs, moments, strike, theologian, theologians, The Clocks, unpleasant, unwelcome
«The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: clock, clocked, folly, hours, measure, measured, The Clocks, The Hours
«I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me: For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock; My thoughts are minutes»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: clock, minutes, my thoughts, The Clocks, wasted
«Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.»
Author: William Faulkner (Novelist, Writer) | About: Time | Keywords: as it is, click, clicked, clicking, clicks, clock, clocks, come to life, only when, slay, stops, The Clocks, wheeled, wheels
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