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“(After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.”

“I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.”

Country Would Be Beautiful House Darkness Pieces Tvs Periods Quiet Radio Clock Classic Candle Costumes Haunted Houses Clock Ticking

Author:Conor McPherson

“I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror.”

People Knows I Can Views Mirrors Lips Clock Rear View Rear View Mirror

Author:Max Beesley

“Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.”

School Four Week Mass Eight Clock Grammar Grammar School

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.”

Matter Facts Running Hurt Behinds Leaving Clock Sand Depressing Abyss Facts Of Life Hourglass

Book:And We All Fall Down

Source: And We All Fall Down

“I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.”

Stills Hours Sleep Cities Fire Streets Stage Fit Murder Theater Police Clock Ran Stations Halls Jail Buried Echoes Belly Riot Tick Slums Banquets Courtroom Bookshops Saloons Madhouses Tock Tick Tock

Author:Ben Hecht

“Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".”

House Wish White Mines Band Sitting Performances Hearing Clock White House Labs

Author:Duke Ellington

“Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.”

“I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.”

“There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.”

People May Dream Fields Six News Fellows Clock Neighborhood Covered Catching Stirring

Book:American Dreams: Lost and Found

Source: American Dreams: Lost and Found

“Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.”

Children Care Fall House Four Wall Laughter Concern Prison Notes Hungry Naked Teenager Clock Grieving Companion Compassionate Homeless Tick Time Passes Departed Sparrows Four Walls

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“You've got to have some fun before games or you make the season too long. We don't start work until seven o'clock. If you're game-ready at three, it's not good for you. This is the only way I know how to do it.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Three Games Fun Know How Ready Seasons Seven Clock

Author:Prince Fielder

“If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Play Four Advice Give Me Clock Things To Do Right Thing Seconds Afternoon Saturday Monday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Alex Agase

“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”

Hands Hours Clock

Author:Victor Hugo

“My hunger serves me instead of a clock.”

Hunger Clock

Author:Jonathan Swift

“When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.”

Break Happenings Clock Rushing Rushing In

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.”

Purpose Values Process Vision Perspective Balance Empowerment Speed Symbols Clock Efficient Efficiency Compass Effectiveness

Author:Stephen Covey

“Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism....I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous.”

Feels Doe Two Feelings Eye Kids Three Difficult Morning Special Changed Clock Delivery Surrealism Diapers Catch Me I've Changed

Author:Stephen King

“The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.”

World Believe Wells May Has Beens Past Clear Cutting Taught Various Clock Arbitrary Calendars Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Rick Bass

“I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.”

Long Moments Clock Unseen Tick

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.”

Use Dream Political Party Mass Labor Foolish Clock Helpless Political Parties Spinning

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Time is what the clock says.”

Clock

Author:Albert Einstein

“If we knew we were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, would we have to step up our evangelistic program, or could we in all good conscience carry on just as we are?”

Ifs Night Dies Steps Tomorrow Conscience Program Clock Twelve Step Up

Author:Ray Comfort

“I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.”

People Should Littles Has Beens Ends Matter Numbers Building Members Computer Raises Come Up Tea Clock The End Of The Day Halls Sugar Unfair Staff Supplies Supervision

Author:John von Neumann

“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.”

Ifs Thinking Should Science Freedom Morning Conditions Offers Bed Agree Clock Protest Every Morning Great Power

Author:Thomas Huxley

“I recall a friend telling me that for all the years his mother worked, every clock in her home was set 30 minutes ahead. She was never late. And she was beloved by all. Punctuality matters. Shows respect for others. And excellence within yourself. Be great today. Please.”

Years Matter Shows Home Today Mother Minutes Please Late Respect Excellence Clock Beloved Recalls Respecting Others Punctuality Show Respect

Author:Robin Sharma

“The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.”

America Faces Pay Economic Crisis Dollars Clock Bubbles Decline Printing Terminal Lenders Clock Is Ticking Economic Depression

Author:Peter Schiff

“With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's what you've got and you have to make that work, and there's something incredibly liberating about that because you can't torture yourself. You have to focus on the moment, and you have to embrace every second and opportunity and maximize that, whereas with writing, there's no imperative there. You just amble along.”

Writing Done Moments Opportunity Focus Cutting Embrace Seven Clock Torture Liberating Imperatives Every Second

Author:Dan Mazer

“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Would Be Three Interesting Morning Study Seeing Painting Fine Clock Endeavor Throwing Fine Arts Throwing Things

Author:Ben Schnetzer

“I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.”

Knows Way Long Ends Bigs Song Hours Class Know How Minutes Clock Keep Going Gym Pumps Ipods Your Favorite Favorite Song

Author:Candice Accola

“The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].”

States United Morning United States Six Clock Necks Count Dracula

Author:Hugo Chavez

“I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.”

Hard Facts Happens Fronts Clock Activist

Author:Kanye West

“We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.”

Asks Late Instruments Speed Flying Clock Too Late Slow Down

Book:Themes and episodes

Source: Themes and episodes

“If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.”

Ifs Dream Love Is Clock Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:John Hagee

“It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.”

Matter Morning Four Clock

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.”

Men Should Two Night Views Taken Glasses Clock Twelve

Book:Espresso Tales

Source: Espresso Tales

“Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.”

Trying Night Speak Chance Morning Eight Clock

Author:Zig Ziglar

“You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.”

Jobs Waiting Minutes Office Slave Clock

Author:Lauryn Hill

“In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock”

Ifs Knows Firsts Important Football College Possession Clock Brad College Football

Author:Bob Griese

“Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.”

Clock Buying Stopping Saving Money

Author:Napoleon Hill

“We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman.”

Thinking Wells Children Jobs Clock Having Children Biological Clock

Author:Daryl Wein

“Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.”

Knows World Mean Shows Kids Night Given Watches Demand Computer Access Clock Instant Thursday Queues Thursday Night

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.”

Stills Lord Six Breaths Prison Wings Seven Cells Clock Swings Icy

Book:The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

“Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.”

Clock Paranoid

Author:Dan Wells

“Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.”

Country Crime Possession Clock Great Country

Author:David Mamet

“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.”

Writing Matter Shows Morning Five Air Goes On Picks Theater No Matter What Radio Cooks Clock Lakes Saturday Friday Deadline Adrenaline Monologues Lake Wobegon Friday Morning

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.”

Ifs Want Today Turns Forget Clock Right Time

Author:Demetri Martin

“Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.”

Ifs Thinking Want Said Shows Wanted Causes Baby Clock Closing Having A Baby Clock Is Ticking Gynecologists Closing Time

Author:Carol Leifer

“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.”

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