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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. – Orson Welles
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. – Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” – Anthony Liccione
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. – Golda Meir
Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. – Ben Hecht
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. – Voltaire
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think. – Robert Service
Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think. – Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. – Voltaire
Death is much like an alarm clock except there is never a snooze button to give you just a moment more, before you really have to wake. – Ronnie Rickner
Dont sit like a rock,work like a clock. – vani
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. – Polish Proverb
Even a stopped clock is right two times a day. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. – John Rogers
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion. – Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. – Stephen Jay Gould
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. – James Thurber
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. – James Thurber
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. – Peter De Vries
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. – Orson Welles
Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists! – Mehmet Murat ildan
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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