Quotes with clocks

  • Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
  • O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

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  • Edward. E. Cummings At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Otway Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
    Thomas Otway
    English dramatist (1652 - 1685)
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  • Bruce Lipton If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ben Jonson O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Katchor You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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