12 quotes found
“The Clock on the Morning Lenape BuildingMust Clocks be circles?Time is not a circle.Suppose the Mother of All Minutes startedright here, on the sidewalkin front of the Morning Lenape Building, and ...”
“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of P...”
“The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and...”
“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to li...”
“Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel”
“The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a d...”
“The illusion is time itself.”
“Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity”
“How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time ...”
“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.”
“Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 956). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer som...”
