41 quotes found
“the moon is just another kind of clock”
“...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.”
“We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock”
“Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets.”
“Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.”
“In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!”
“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”
“Theres no such thing as not enough time out here in the woods. I dont even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than morning, afternoon, evening and night.”
“Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.”
“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...”
“You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s 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...”
“They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.”
“In the silence of the ticking of the clock’s 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 ...”
“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.”
“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...”
“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...”
“Time is an imp—a pesky, little, hellish troll that hastens the clock when I smile but then delays the passing of minutes when I frown.”
“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...”
