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“My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.”

Childhood Pride Clock Lions Alarms Alarm Clocks

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.”

World Moments Fall Clock That Moment Midnight Machinery

Book:The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”

Said Lying Waiting Forget Dog Gun Crosses Letters Meetings Boxes Cards Posts Clock Hats Propose I Love Him Cab Forget Me

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

Needs Book Wit Crafts Clock Native

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)”

Hours Answers Heard Strikes Clock

Author:John Piper

“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

Ifs Thinking World Stuff Simple Fishes Clock If I Could Friendly Swim

Book:The Beach

Source: The Beach

“The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."”

Made Said Language Hours Emotion Eternity Filled Ancient Flight Clock Customs Politeness Despotism Stewards Hereditary

Author:Lawrence Durrell

“Its five o'clock some where”

Five Clock

Author:Kenny Chesney

“I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Feelings Hands Eye Night Universe Four Needed Moon Rain Empty Mirrors Green Clock Insects Completeness Descending Green Eyes

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.”

Ifs Years Has Beens School Lasts Time Known Four One Day Thousand High School Surprise Winter Clock Parks Halls Four Years Thousand Years Years Of Experience

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.”

People Giving Kind Happens Used Sleep Pleasure Morning Violence Blow Surrender Clock Each Day Shock Electric Alarms Haste Alarm Clocks Electric Shock

Author:Milan Kundera

“It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.”

“Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.”

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

“As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)”

Book Seems Used Saws Baby My Friends Longing Clock Shops Cried Ache Infant Womb Used Books

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

World Four Suicide Killing Favors Optimistic Clock Bad Ass Misanthropy Killing Everyone

Author:Warren Ellis

“I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.”

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.”

Ifs Feels Two Done Night Dark Morning Sun Tree Feet Wind Shadow Window Clock Moonlight Dark Night Deep Dark Glisten

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.”

People Giving Sound Behinds Movement Ready Thousand Quiet Giving Up Hungry Clock Hanging On

Book:The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition

Source: The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.”

Ifs Wells I Can Moments Feelings Would Be Joy Wish Memories Accepting Gone Sadness Guides Clock Guide Me

Book:A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”

Thinking Knows Humans Heart Littles Seems Hours Known Mystery Eternity Rate Granted Clock Flash Human Heart Commonplace Calendars Think Twice Second Thoughts

Author:Michael Ende

“Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.”

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.”

Watches Clock Biological Clock

Book:Milkrun

Source: Milkrun

“But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.”

Clock Sunday Bells

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)”

Morning Genius Please Seven Karma Debate Clock Chameleon

Book:Dream Chaser

Source: Dream Chaser

“T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.”

Mean Said Morning Streets Eight Clock Traffic Parking Parking Lot My Most Excellent Year

Book:My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

Source: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

“I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.”

Knows Want Needs Made I Can Know How Details Clock

Author:Sandra Bullock

“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...”

“Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less.”

Men Believe Littles Whole Would Be Race Nice Mass Folks Clock Thinker Pilots Being Nice Airline Passengers Generic Terminology Airline Pilots

Author:C.E. Murphy

“At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.”

Firsts Enough Missing Ready Lessons Red Cooking Clock Settling Kitchen Makeup Scare Skirts Sweaters Stools Celia

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge”

Knows Hands Moving Sound Watches Minutes Balance Mark Moving Forward Clock Wheels Do You Know Stopping Back And Forth Poppies

Book:Tempt Me at Twilight

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

“she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock”

Stories Hands Earth Hair Roots Died Clock Buried My Sister Deep Roots

Author:Sherman Alexie

“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.”

“Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

Enough Moments Wealth Months Mere Edges Clock Butterfly Leafs Dew Enough Time Parody

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?”

Doe Art Philosophy Moments History Eternity Clock

Author:Paul Di Filippo

“This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I’d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos’ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.”

Littles Made Play Feelings Hands Kids Moving Used Fall Hours Watches Morning Bed Sick Hungry Get Up Dumb Clock Weekend Cartoon Ladders Blanket Begging Levers Hippo

Author:Jordan Sonnenblick

“Finally the kitchen clock said 5:17. It was time to roll out. I shouted for my mom, woke Jeffrey up, ran upstairs, changed into my concert clothes, put on my shoes, and was standing by the door to the garage by 5:19—chanting “Let’s go! Come on!” (Feel free to try that at home, by the way; moms love it!)”

Way Feels Trying Said Home Doors Changed Mom Clothes Standing Shoes My Mom Clock Ran Kitchen Concerts Garage Upstairs Chanting Love Mom

Book:Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Source: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

Lasts Darkness Gay Red Clock Flames Decay Dominion Expired Tripods Masque

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.”

Feelings Wanted Morning Six Tired Clock Kate Daylight

Author:Kate Moss

“It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.”

Turns Hours Regret Clock Seconds

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.”

Should Years Long Doe Said Together Courses Watches Cases Mines Months Long Time Clock Wordplay Time Together Alice Adventures In Wonderland Alice In Wonderland Tea Alice In Wonderland Mad

Book:Alice in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Littles Would Be Turns Fall Next Taken Cost Demand Weapons Silent Rounds Clock Hostility Scenarios Loaded Peeta Capitol Greetings Flipped Haymitch

Author:Suzanne Collins

“I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.”

People Way Believe Feelings I Believe Hurt Four Civilization Western I Believe In Tea Clock Decline Take Time Courtesy Western Civilization Hurting People

Book:The View from Saturday

Source: The View from Saturday

“When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!”

Party Clock Tick Tock Tick Tock

Author:Kesha

“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

Writing Inspiration Morning Strikes Nine Clock Every Morning

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.”

Source: Johnny Got His Gun

“When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.”

Way Feels Persons Seems Courses Alive Missing Aspect All Things Everyday Clock Engaged Preservation Finite Transactions Borrowing Flux Unlucky Quarantine

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62”

Feels Firsts Children Has Beens Said Ends Lasts Lost Knowing Imagine Regret Lovers Bones Granted Clock Seconds Coming Back Impossibility Newborn Chemist Truly Happy Newborn Child

Author:Craig Clevenger

“The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.”

Night Felt Dark Animal Rooms Silence Danger Promise Skins Clock Apartment Woven Cloaks Jacob

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”

Way Life Hours Watches Bears Destroyed Clock Midnight

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

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