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Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over its surface. This innocuous-sounding feature implicates a single planetwide catastrophe that reset the cratering clock... turning Venus's entire surface into the American automotive dream-a totally paved planet.”

Dream Young Science Planets Vote Surface Clock Features Over It Peculiar Catastrophe Venus Reset Craters

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Trying Made Three Worry Clock Tunes

Author:B. B. King

“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.”

Mean Lying Morning Worry Four Lucky Clock Novelists Awake Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:David Nicholls

“If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.”

Ifs Five College Scary Clock Afternoon

Author:Benjamin Jowett

“Some people thinks that I'm the Antichrist, which would be a really good disguise for the Antichrist. You'd never see a pudgy, out-of-shape guy, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, being the Antichrist, would you?”

People Thinking Would Be Guy Shapes Clock Afternoon Disguise Antichrist

Author:Glenn Beck

“I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.”

Ifs Littles Used Found Watches Clock Screws

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.”

Want Heart Soul Teacher Members Get Up Clock Productive Neighborhood Assets Farmers Cop Alarms Plumber Alarm Clocks Ranchers

Author:Ted Nugent

“New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.”

People Running Watches Environment Minutes Special Strikes Spots Clock Ran Parks Twelve New Yorkers Central Park

Author:Hilary Swank

“I think romance is something that you don't clock or keep track of... you don't manage it in that way. It's something that happens in a moment. Usually, it's in a period of time when you put yourself in an uncomfortable position for the sake of somebody else.”

Thinking Way Moments Happens Romance Position Periods Sake Track Manage Clock Uncomfortable

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.”

Men May Aging Sticks Redemption Clock Noon Maids Pretence

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

“I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.”

Should Truth Hours Laughing Ears Clock Afterlife Sober Mock Mummy

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still”

Stills Skills Clock Machinery Puppets Geneva

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.”

Mind Age Lasts Five Generations Understood Universal Institutions Flesh Tea Clock Phrases Glorious March Application Rude Rapids Rivals Risen Heirs Forefathers

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.”

Heart Seems Sides Hours Natural Sun Mankind Example Keys Stones Setting Settings Hills Clock Reasonable Twelve Centre Stopping Noon Dine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”

Ifs Trying May Children Doe Stills Kids Mother Father Watches Acceptance Tvs Six News Percent Clock Ninety Liable

Author:Bill Cosby

“The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.”

Feels Matter Turns Sleep No Matter What Clock Midnight Alarms

Author:Summer Sanders

“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”

Men Wells Made Two Character Helping Used Hours Differences Opinion Watches Expression Drawing Statements Manners Compare Clock Distinction Plates Johnson Brighter Neat

Author:James Boswell

“A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?”

Ifs World Time Summer Clock Timeless Worms Insects Calendars Slugs

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.”

World Expected Clock

Author:Georges Pompidou

“To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.”

“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”

“I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.”

Firsts Believe Whole Funny First Time Ridiculous Celebrate Clock Nfl

Author:Charles Woodson

“One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.”

World Way Humans Made Time Understanding Change Ability Changed Standards Dues Saving Made It Clock Zone Savings Daylight Telegraph Time Zones Saving Time Daylight Savings

Author:James Gleick

“On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.”

Littles Today Guy Turns Wish Bits Sports Chance Cutting Little Bit Athlete Clock

Author:Eric Heiden

“We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.”

Life Evil Secret Special Benefits Library Privilege Protection Former Eras Clock Good Life Presidency Badges Secret Service

Author:Lawton Chiles

“If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your phone, you probably won't change your behavior. But if you have a clock on the wall that changes color from green to red if you're using more energy than you've planned, then that actually can change your behavior. There are a lot of things to be done in that world that actually have an impact on our daily lives.”

Ifs World Looks Done House Energy Goal Color Wall Behavior Red Green Impact Phones Clock Daily Life Usage Graphs

Author:Werner Vogels

“We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.”

Way Two Race Struggle Battle One Way Clock Two Things Things In Life Metaphorical

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.”

Two Democracy Movement Nuclear Faster Clock Iran Nuclear Weapons Catching Weaponry Catching Up Clock Ticking

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.”

Cost Studios Clock Uncomfortable Lots Of Money

Author:Mac DeMarco

“There is a drop of blood in the snow before me.... The coyote... is in estrus.... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.”

Bits Blood Ready Messages Spring Winter Snow Clock Coyotes Sending A Message

Author:Craig Childs

“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”

Knows Men World Mean Doe Running Hate Turns Fall Break Forever Wife Shapes Blind Warm Envy Clock Staring Running Away Breaking Down Leaving Me Continuity Live Forever

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.”

Has Beens Next Given Genius Boxes Clock Warning Timing Mistaken Publishers Promotion Alarms Laundry Inspectors Alarm Clocks Anthrax Laundry Detergent

Author:Jay Leno

“(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.”

Way Needs Should Years Lasts Forever Like You Should Have Clock Automobile Antiques

Author:William Baldwin

“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.”

“Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.”

Looks Talking Breaths Clock Talkers

Author:Mason Cooley

“Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.”

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