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“I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is.”

Thinking Walks Watches News Clock

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.”

Ifs Want Might Wife Wall Clock Gas Stations Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Gas Stations Redneck Humor Budweiser

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.”

Hard Enough Moments Night Morning Clock

Author:Rudolf Bing

“The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.”

Clock Gas Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Clock Is Ticking

Author:Ernest Moniz

“I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.”

Morning Bed Wake Up Evening Clock Workout Sleepy Sleepers

Author:Michelle Obama

“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.”

Two Home School Night Hours Half Practice Morning Four Grew Bed Ten Six Grew Up Seven Guitar Eight Nine Clock Afternoon Dedication Fifteen Fourteen

Author:Joe Pass

“Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.”

Want Play Causes Talking Products Paper Beats Clock Toilets Dissolving Toilet Paper Thickets

Author:Bill Engvall

“Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.”

Phones Clock Eggs Biological Clock

Author:AJ Lee

“In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.”

Tvs News Eight France Clock Dancer Ballet Cool Things

Author:Benjamin Millepied

“The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.”

Literature Growing Tyranny Clock Popularity Revolt

Book:Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

Source: Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

“I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.”

Thinking I Can Care Remember Sleep Laughing Clock Going To Sleep

Author:Graeme Souness

“The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.”

Should Writing Beautiful Faces Three Morning Five Four Alive Reader Clock Reckless Good Writing

Author:Joy Williams

“We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.”

Trying Turns Figures Happenings Clock

Author:Lester Bowie

“Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.”

Wells Running Setting Settings Clock

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.”

Men Example Divine Expected Chiefs Clock Sunday Officers Commanders Commander In Chief Attendance

Author:George Washington

“The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.”

Use Race Finals Clock Kitchen Characteristics Categories Traits Tribes Rivals Convenience Convenient Classification

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.”

Age Time Clock Adam Twelve Midnight Temperament Pupils Old Days Night Time Goodman

Book:Henry IV

Source: Henry IV

“Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.”

Book Reading Bed Observation Clock Sat Chamber Ingenious

Book:The Shorter Pepys

Source: The Shorter Pepys

“It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.”

President Boys Morning My Family Moved Clubs Get Up Clock Every Morning Seattle Messed Up Ferry

Author:Quincy Jones

“Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.”

Light Age Dark Clock Thunder Adages Dark Ages Freeze Stopped Clock

Author:Leonard Sweet

“Now I am going to speak a word and this is the word and here's the word. When the clock strikes 2.08. There are eight songs in the Bible. Noah started the world over with eight people. On the eighth day the Bible says Jesus appeared. Thomas because was not a believer but on the eighth day he showed up and Thomas was a believer. Actually Jesus was resurrected on the eighth day.”

People World Song Jesus Speak Eight Strikes Believer Clock

Author:Steve Munsey

“Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. People looked at the slow pace and at big guys like George Mikan and said pro basketball was just for overgrown pituitary cases. Baseball and football were numbers one and two and pro basketball wasn't even in the same universe.”

People Said Two Bigs Guy Universe Games Numbers Cases Trouble Football College Basketball Baseball Faults Clock Pace Big Guys

Author:Dolph Schayes

“As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.”

Needs Long Sometimes Happens Artist Journey Pages Long Time Discovery Train Clock Schedules

Author:Junot Diaz

“I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.”

“What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.”

People I Can Problem Morning Havens Drinking Driving Clock Jet Champagne Stadiums Fathom Drinking Champagne Private Jet

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.”

“In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

World Believe Made Real Dies Causes Existence Example Wind Wine Finished Wounds Core Clock Village Crops Ripple Morris

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Only when the clock stops does time come to life”

Doe Time Clock My Time Wasting Time Only Time Moments In Time Wasted Time Life Time Wasting My Time Concept Of Time Wasted My Time Stop Time Wasted Time In Life Biological Clock Time Clock Fleeting Time My Time Will Come

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.”

Ifs World Want Writing Real Life Is Night Streets Bed Details Real Life Clock Shirts Pushing Every Night Dishes Exhausted T Shirt Dropping Alarms Folding Alarm Clocks Strollers

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.”

Kind I Can Problem Picks Lays Clock Let It Go Grasping Aversion

Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.”

Ifs Stills Hours Half New York Calling Clock Zone Korea North Korea Time Zones

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

People Wells Two Cities Morning Environment Streets Strange Comfort Empty Dancing Clubs Clock Theme Aesthetic Going Out Urban Desolate Empty Streets Urban Environment

Author:Moby

“I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.”

Sometimes Lines Morning Fronts Drink Clock Disappointed Conventional Cocaine

Author:Moby

“The reason I didn't like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o'clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.”

Thinking Made Reason Speak Sleep Morning Stupid Conversation Clock Awake Cocaine Stupid Things

Author:Moby

“Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.”

Ideas Three Sides Morning Taken Serious Drinking East Clock Encounters Love Life Good Ideas Sobriety East Side

Author:Moby

“The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock."”

Firsts Sorry Sentences Clock Breakfast I'm Sorry Cheeseburger

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds. We did it before dinner at 5 o'clock. Then when dinnertime comes, they've already eaten vegetables.”

Two Kids Simple Dinner Clock Seconds Vegetables Dip

Author:Andie MacDowell

“I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don't want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That's just not me, that's not how my creativity flows.”

Want Ends Happens Creativity Flow Studios Eight Things Happen Nine Clock Session

Author:Brooke Valentine

“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.”

“I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present.”

People Stills Danger Concerned Clock Clock Is Ticking

Author:Adam Schiff

“Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't know if the alternatives now really replicate the learning experience that I had, in terms of what I gained from making mini-comics. There were certain components of it that are completely gone because of being able to just throw stuff up on your blog the minute you're done with it.”

Ifs Knows Done Able Certain Stuff Term Gone Minutes Alternatives Clock Components Blogs Mourn Pointless Learning Experience Replicate No Turning Back

Author:Adrian Tomine

“How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?”

Hands Forever Rocks Stage Arms Goes On Bed Yeah Clock Candle Rock N Roll Nightcap

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.”

Ifs Trying Mind Next Bits Attention Morning Come Up Coffee Driving Clock Horizon Floats Psychologist Violin

Author:Eric Weiner

“I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.”

Knows Needs Firsts Wells Kind Said Song Bits Mood Clock Saturday Flavor Introduction Hustle Cocktails Waitress Bustle Hustle And Bustle

Author:Billy Joel

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

Thinking Night Bed Clock Twelve Scoundrels

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.”

Needs I Can Play Used Loses Levels Five Minutes Ten Twenties Track Clock Good Sense

Author:Z'EV

“You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.”

Years Energy Fun Months Tired Studios Finished Clock Time Spent Minutiae Clock Ticking

Author:Beck

“I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.”

Ifs Made Bigs Choices Worry Records Wall Clock Plus No Money

Author:Daniel Powter

“As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.”

Different Hours Views Minutes Flow Series Clock Seconds Introducing Units Discreet Different Views

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.”

Thinking Discovery Clock Explosions Arrivals Scientific Discovery

Author:Nicholas G. Carr