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“Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.”

Doe South East Planes Clock Los Angeles Texas Coast Atlanta East Coast

Author:Pimp C

“I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.”

I Can Feelings Hands Happens Games Love Is Balls Things Happen Clock

Author:David Cone

“Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.”

Moving Certain Given Opinion Minutes Periods Instruments Clock Devices Volume Sophisticated Delay Electrical Measuring Electrons

Author:Dean Lombardi

“I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.”

School Morning Wine Seven Evening Clock Afternoon Household

Book:You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

“You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.”

Should Lying Hours Fire Five Fronts Snow Clock Sunset Strings Finest Sausage Copper Finest Hour

Author:Tasha Tudor

“For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.”

Ifs World May Enough Life Is Artist Realizing Labor Library Clock Ignored Retreat Halfway Slums Bohemia

Book:The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.”

Source: Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n

“The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.”

Time Humanity Freedom Missing Crime Clock Conspiracy Appointments Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Brian Andreas

“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.”

Party Greatness Scene Hollywood Clock Height Twelve Glowing Emergence Vanishing Stardom Fetch

Author:Ben Hecht

“At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes. By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.”

“The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.”

Doe Eternal Clock

Author:Paul Schrader

“You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.”

Needs Night Sleep Figures Bed Models Clock Broads Breakfast Alarms Alarm Clocks Breakfast In Bed

Author:Zach Braff

“Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.”

Wall Intuition Clock Internals Compass

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.”

Wind Strikes Clock Collaboration

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.”

Ifs Trying Persons Matter Turns Peace Process Dying Cancer Painful Heal Clock

Author:Mark Sheppard

“Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?”

“The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.”

World Looks America Streets Modern Towns Clean London Clock Comparison Telephones Modern World Guarded

Book:Flying Visits

Source: Flying Visits

“Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Two Night Three Thousand Theater Competition Awful Clock Desperate Friday Friday Night Happy Friday

Author:Mark Rydell

“Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."”

“We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”

Source: The unfinished country: a book of American symbols

“When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.”

Two Destiny Share Clock Awake Tick

Author:Tite Kubo

“Kentucky wants to occupy some clock”

Want Clock Kentucky

Author:Billy Packer

“Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.”

Thinking Lasts Easy Pay Habit Dresses Get Up Clock Saturday Robots Friday Booze Etcetera

Author:Alasdair Gray

“I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero.”

Ifs Games Clock What If Zero Cowboy Redskins

Author:Joe Gibbs

“The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.”

“Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long: Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.”

Life Years Long Stills Seems Lasts Wonder Fate Wind Ten Eating Died Fruit Winter Clock Ran Wheels Autumn Worn Weary Blast Worn Out Mellow Still Life

Author:John Dryden

“The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”

Night Pay Behinds Doors Wall Bed Debt Clock Chests Clicks Drawers

Book:The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc

“Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.”

Want Writing Two Important Feelings Justice Morning Teacher Praying Eating Sick Wake Up Towns Dumb Clock Brown Essays Want U Charlie Lucy Feeling Sick

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.”

Needs Sometimes Purpose Psychology Player Position Gains Clock Opponents

Author:Pal Benko

“I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.”

Knows Ten Jazz Clock

Author:Thelonious Monk

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”

Life Inspirational Facts Motivational Success Positive Clock Success In Life

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.”

Important Struggle Our Lives Management Priorities Clock Gaps Time Management Compass Life Time

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.”

Heart Sometimes Enough Time Asks Names Cities Sadness Cold Clock Strain His Love Ink Neglected Enough Time Cold Heart

Author:Pablo Neruda

“CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.”

Men Time Values Moral Future Concern Machines Remains Clock Reminding Moral Values

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.”

Ifs Years Turns Soldier Clock Israeli Captured Lebanon Israeli Soldiers

Author:Dan Halutz

“Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.”

Technology Our Lives Computer Discovery Clock Technological Rockets Contractions Computer Technology

Author:Serge Haroche

“I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'”

Ifs Thinking Important Matter Dream Night Morning Fantasy Fashion Dresses Practicals Clock Pragmatic

Author:Alber Elbaz

“My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.”

Blood Shots Flow Clock Cop Rhyme Interstate Blood Clots

Author:Talib Kweli

“Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.”

Source: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”

People Certain Clock

Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.”

“Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.”

Men Gone Yesterday Clock Meat Hunting Twelve Captains Hunts Eighteen

Book:History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States

Source: History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States

“It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.”

Way Feels Humans Made Courses Millions Team Members Achievement Computer Losing Intelligent Blue Chess Clock Impressive Alarms Ibm Alarm Clocks

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.”

Ifs Knows Whole Focus Competition Clock Skiing

Author:Picabo Street

“Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.”

Moving Sides Benefits Gains Advantage Obvious Chess Psychological Clock

Author:Sergey Belavenets

“I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.”

Play Wanted Girl Felt Baby Lawyer Relate Clock Mary Baby Girl Clock Is Ticking Clock Ticking Mary Kay

Author:JoBeth Williams

“Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.”

Dream Eye Hours Answers Half Feet Willing Wall Singing Window Dancing Lips Clock Kitchen Farmers September Doorways

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one”

Clock Digital Racing Motor

Author:Murray Walker

“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”

Deals Attention Morning Audience Sun Four Mark Theater Theatre Awful Clock Rising Description Eastern Begets Hemisphere

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.”

Men Mind Hands Pleasure Industry Habit Approach Labor Excellence Rewards Arguing Observation Granted Clock Persevere Strength Of Mind

Book:Seven Discourses on Art

Source: Seven Discourses on Art