Quotes with clock

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  • Bob Saget 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.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Carol Shields It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 131
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • A. N. Wilson It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Vance Havner It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Captain Beefheart James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Angela Carter Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bill Cosby My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Brene Brown One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Alan Coren Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Rupert Brooke Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Byron Katie Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you've attached to something not true for you.
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Ben Folds The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • William Blake The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • William Hazlitt The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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