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“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”

Certain House Hours Dark Half Cold Bottom Strikes Clock Dry Half Hours Null

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.”

Looks Two Feelings Remember Morning Positive Baby Delight Clock

Author:Margaret Drabble

“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.”

Said Play Chess Clock Boards Opponents Gross Overstatement

Author:Viktor Korchnoi

“I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!”

Ifs Hard Sound Issues Mines Serious Mom Late Wake Up My Mom Managers Clock Hard Times Working It Waking Gigs Buddy Alarms Alarm Clocks Serious Issues

Author:Jesse McCartney

“You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.”

Sports Spring Wounds Clock

Author:Dave Winfield

“I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.”

Needs Art Kids Artist Fun My Own Careers Profession Clock Boss Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:Mark Kostabi

“I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.”

Three Names Interesting Business Company Creativity Five Months Genius Computer Late Fruit Stuck Clock Apples Threatened Garbage Three Months Filing Garbage Cans

Author:Steve Jobs

“To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.”

Book Reading Trade Clock Book Reading

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.”

Mean Littles Two Opportunity Ability Morning Mets Accounts Clock Instantaneous

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.”

World Dream Fall Millions Love You Painting Hair Lovely Vampire Clock Dirty Nails Greatest Love Dizzy Love You More I Love You More

Author:Dylan Thomas

“No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.”

Fall Waiting Clock Accountants Falling Asleep

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.”

Kind Mean Two Decision Moral Morning Courage Events Mets Occasions Clock Judgement Spite Unexpected Unprepared Moral Courage Unforeseen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves.”

Littles Care Stress Hot Dust Clock Sane

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.”

People Thinking Motivational Practice Tradition Phones Breathe Rings Clock Tension Halls Village Dining Plums Chimes

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

People Trying Years Five Ten Years Ago Lifetime Committed Clock Score Better Now

Author:Jerry Garcia

“You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.”

Moments Lasts Enjoy Women Grace Advice Beats Clock Your Mom

Author:Amy Dickinson

“My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.”

Looks Women Clock Recipes What You Love Recipe For Success

Author:Ann Landers

“I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.”

Eye Work Sitting Clock Cages

Author:Ray Davies

“We're gonna rock around the clock.”

Rocks Expression Clock

Author:Bill Haley

“No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.”

Passion Needed Clock Mma My Passion Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:Eric Thomas

“I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.”

Play Used Break Morning Dad Instruments My Dad Clock Nuts Scream Cop

Author:Kamasi Washington

“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”

“What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?”

Thinking Helping Age Dies Understanding Serious Aging Clock Cognition No Turning Back Understanding You

Author:Goldie

“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”

Grief Silence Cutting Dog Bones Clock Piano Grieving Funeral Telephones Coffins Juicy Those Grieving Death Poems Grief Comfort Comfort The Grieving Grieving Poems Condolences Poems

Author:W. H. Auden

“Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had to be cut to fit the allotted time. I am happy to provide this elaboration to correct the record.”

Matter Records Cutting Wonderful Fit Radio Mediums Clock Discussion Interviews Unforgiving

Author:Jack Miles

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

Body Running Games Football Basketball Baseball Complexes Boring Flying Clock Odd Baseball Games Cerebral Basketball Game

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.”

“At 3 o'clock in the morning on tour when you're sober is a lot less fun than 3 a.m. when you're drunk in a bar or in a nightclub. But having said that, 9 in the morning on tour sober is immeasurably better than 9 a.m. on tour when you're hung over and feeling like death.”

Said Feelings Fun Morning Bars Drunk Clock Hung Sober Nightclubs

Author:Moby

“People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.”

People Virtue Clock

Author:Steve Goodman

“Follow your compass, not your clock.”

Author:Andrea Jung

“A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.”

Body Culture Rhythm Clock

Author:Alan Watts

“We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.”

Ifs Want Wells Looks Lasts Values Attitude Morning Greater Four Produce Okay Dollars Charity Profit Advertising Clock Pennies Needy Donation

Author:Dan Pallotta

“There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.”

Thinking Knows Kind Two Country Glory Clock Rely Civilized Rely Upon Always Wrong

Book:Clocks: From

Source: Clocks: From

“Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.”

Enough Black Memories Dark Sleep Harder Clock Oblivion Reminders Pits Alarms Alarm Clocks No Sleep

Author:Doris Lessing

“O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.”

Heart Fall My Heart Clock Shock Autumn Frost Fodder

Book:The Days Gone by and Other Poems

Source: The Days Gone by and Other Poems

“A small poet repeats himself like a clock.”

Poet Clock Repeats

Author:Austin O'Malley

“People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.”

People Problem Time Fighting Creativity Creative Pressure Clock

Author:Teresa Amabile

“There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.”

Interesting Clock Berlin Really Interesting

Author:Jim Sanborn

“It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?”

Knows Men Night Nine Clock Sunday Do You Know Sunday Night

Author:Elle Varner

“If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.”

Ifs Men Way I Can Hate Bits Work Pleasure Too Much Minutes Pride Arms Goes On Shots Tools I Hate Delight Strikes Clock Strokes Grindstone

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.”

Running Folks Tongue Clock

Book:Adam Bede ... Tenth edition

Source: Adam Bede ... Tenth edition

“My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.”

Way Humor School Funny Father Morning Feet Shoes Snow Clock Every Morning

Author:Bill Cosby

“To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.”

Wells States Whole Order Fine Spring Labor Affair Useless Compare Clock Wheels Mechanism Continents Considering Unjust Simile Representing

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.”

Done Whole Hands Would Be Moving Secret Forever Rounds Clock Ants Shuffling

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.”

War Might Forever News Seven Clock Comes And Goes

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.”

Needs War Kids Film Guy Felt Stuff Bits Parent Protect Six News Clock Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Johnny Depp

“The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.”

Trying Long Lasts Fighting Sex Sides Party Race Republican Battle Immigration Passing Passings Clock Long Ago Public Education Fixation Fighting Battles

Author:Maureen Dowd