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“In the silence of the ticking of the clocks minute hand, I found you. In the echoes of the reverberations of time, I found you. In the tender silence of the long summer night, I found you. In the f...”
“But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can...”
“When that little clock on my wall says Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! Its half past time to write, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.”
“Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).”
“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
“Day is just a collection of hours.”
“There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.”
“Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is...”
“The clock sweats out each minuteof what meat is left to us.”
“You know the horrible life of the alarm clock its a monster that has always appalled me because of the number of things its eyes project, and the way that good fellow stares at me when I enter a r...”
“They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.”
“ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypes...”
“Tick-Tock Tick-Tock Memory The tick tock tick tocks goes the clockThe memory in my heart not aged but I am aged,As the tick tock tick tock goes on.”
“Time is an impa pesky, little, hellish troll that hastens the clock when I smile but then delays the passing of minutes when I frown.”
“Again time elapsed.”
“Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..”
“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”
“Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen fai...”
“The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The area at two...”
