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“Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.”

Sometimes Feelings School Morning Clock

Author:Marlon Brando

“Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue”

Soul Feelings Causes Trouble Shadow Blue Clock Climbs Twelve Avenues Stairs Strolling All Alone Feeling Blue

Author:Billy Rose

“I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.”

Home Night Mom Computer My Mom Clock Every Night

Author:Justin Bieber

“It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.”

Knows Men Looks Turns Mistake Boys Wise Plenty Clock New Beginnings

Author:Mel Gibson

“There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.”

America Sound Church Issues Fairs Clock Sunday Usual Pretext Steeples Medley

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.”

Ifs Knows Wanted Natural Clock Prompts

Book:Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875

Source: Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875

“A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.”

Knows Heart May Two Order Three Strikes Clock

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Made Bigs Eye Stuff Tree Singing Bird Empty Clock Staring Halls Pens Shore Tides Blank Traffic Rotten Ornaments Measuring Pavement Railway

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”

Trying Night Morning Painting Materials Summer Horse Green Size Eight Glad Nine Clock Sufficient Gates Cows Canvas Showers July Dew August Collars Carts Donkey Foreground Stoke

Author:John Constable

“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.”

Body Law Certain Bits Brain Sadness Subjects Flow Machines Clock Nerves Chemicals Electricity Mechanic Acid Electrical Electrons Arousal

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.”

Source: Dance for Two: Essays

“I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".”

People Thinking Knows Way Looks May Mean Problem Certain Dying Clock Immortal Getting Old Getting Older Clock Ticking

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more”

Needs Feels I Can Different Night Sleep Morning Rain Lonely Clock Can't Sleep I'm Lonely

Author:Prince

“With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.”

Stills Dark Pages Window Hot Holes Clock Foxes Printed Stink Tick

Author:Ted Hughes

“I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day. If I eat bread, it has to be whole wheat. I eat brown rice. I don't eat between meals. I eat at 11 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night.”

Ifs Whole Night Morning Pieces Fruit Bread Clock Meals Each Day Brown Eggs Vegetables Rice Wheat

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.”

Morning Broken Get Up Clock Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:Jack Osbourne

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”

Men Writing Stills Whole Left Half Morning Four Wife Land Fields Promise Whole Life Clock Dozen Pigs New Day Wisest Fertility Pastures Wisest Man Pallets

Author:Jose Saramago

“I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.”

Long Said Country Done Hands Reality Hours Saws Prove Clock Pushing Session Legislature Statutes Travesty Pushing On Prove Me Wrong

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall”

Wells Hands Running Moving Wish Wall Clock Coins Well Wishes Time Is Running Out Time Running Out

Author:Thom Yorke

“At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.”

Wells Ends Sorrow Spring Seasons Clock Rejoice

Book:Threshold

Source: Threshold

“Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.”

Book:Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.”

Moments Voice Dark Minutes Terrible Mark Insight Clarity Useless Clock Steady Accusation Unbroken Furnaces Venting

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.”

Next Leadership Morning Ten Clock Get Back Yearning

Author:Tyrone Guthrie

“The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”

Men May Evil Given Too Much Habit Late Clock Beloved Forty Be A Man Alarms Treacherous Alarm Clocks

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.”

Needs Littles Feelings Three Lost Love Is Morning Baby Clock Bathroom Cognitive

Book:Women who try too hard: breaking the pleaser habits

Source: Women who try too hard: breaking the pleaser habits

“I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.”

Whole Shows Clock Satellites Nowhere To Go

Book:R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry

Source: R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry

“The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.”

Source: City of Saints and Madmen

“There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.”

Believe Doe Philosophy I Believe Creator I Believe In Clock Transcendent Animism Clock Ticking

Book:The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature

Source: The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature

“It's a job. Get up and do it every day. Show up. Don't say no. Taylor Swift was the third write of my day every week. If I had gone home or said “Ah, man. I'm tired today. I'm not going to write at 4 o'clock in the afternoon with a teenager.' If I had done that, just think. Keep an open mind. Everybody has something to come into the room with and when you're starting out, try everything. You might find your magical writing partner.”

“I usually don't get this pretty at 3 o'clock.”

Author:Larry Gatlin

“Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Mean States Kids Form Morning Wife Dog Bears Habit Ten Paper Addiction Ass Awful Clock Kicks Get Back State Of Mind Twelve Symptoms Get Real Really Mean Withdrawal

Author:Frank Pierson

“President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'”

Way Should Said Games President Basketball Shots Clock Sat President Obama Basketball Game Ncaa Espn

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?”

“Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.”

Earth Exercise Eternal Clock Here And Now

Author:Ram Dass

“To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again”

Together Revolution Transformation Lifetime Clock Sixty Seventies Back Together Most Amazing Together Again Cuckoos Back Together Again Cuckoo Clocks

Author:Terence McKenna

“You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Needs Feels Running Beautiful Poetry Class Doors Tree Fronts My Family Okay Clock Shakes Panic Buttons Leafs Feathers Flocks Collectors Tick

Author:Andrea Gibson

“She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.”

Heart Funny Faces Watches Hell Raises Clock Bless

Author:Celia Rivenbark

“It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.”

“Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.”

People Men Games Forget Basketball Clock Nba

Author:Dolph Schayes

“Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.”

People Looks Bigs Guy Literature Thirds Debate Journalist Clock Gore

Author:Chris Matthews

“No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.”

Thinking Made Wanted Rooms Records Happened Atheism Figures Connections Positive Atheism I Realized Clock Nurse

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.”

Ifs Needs Heart Persons Kids Funny Spiritual Hours Levels Five Imagine Six Clock Sense Of Humor Noon Kid At Heart

Author:Nick Cannon

“American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.”

Ifs Happens Kids Night Next Sex Morning Areas Nine Noise Get Up Clock Saturday Saturday Night Rural Areas

Author:Mel Brooks

“Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

Author:William J. Clinton

“Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.”

Needs House Energy Clock

Author:Al Gore

“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”

Men Giving Watches Towns Insight Clock Deluded Wrong Time

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.”

Men Neighbor Clock Roof

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”

Years Looks Book Different Eye Church Five Building Expression Years Ago Stones Twenties Intelligent Former Clock Friendly Towers

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.”

One Day Waste Clock Wasting Time Jewels Upbraid

Book:The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby

Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

Whole Sleep Habit Terrible Gains Clock Live By Conformity Conventions Household Conventional Tick

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald