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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." »Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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"You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." »Edward Steichen
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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"The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still." »Longfellow
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"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day." »Polish Proverb
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"Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think." »Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
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"Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think." »Robert Service
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir
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"Even a stopped clock is right two times a day." »Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Dont sit like a rock,work like a clock." »vani
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"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
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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." »Bonnie Prudden
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." »Pablo Picasso
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"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." »Mark van Doren
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"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up." »William Hazlitt
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"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" »Peter de Jager
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"Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." »John Rogers
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"People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking." »Steve Goodman
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"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." »Harold B. Lee
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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger
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"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." »H. G. Wells
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