Quotes with clock

  • You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
  • Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
  • As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
  • Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
  • It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
  • 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.
  • They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
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  • Benjamin Franklin You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Emily Brontë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • George Chapman And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Bill Nye As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Engvall 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.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Sam Levenson Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Ben Shapiro Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Golda Meir I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • John Barrymore I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
    Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (1980)
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • H. Youngman I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Benjamin Jowett If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Boris Johnson In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
    Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Orson Welles In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bram Stoker It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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