"But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays."
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"I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock."
"Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike."
"We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock."
"It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock."
"Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt."
"I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks"
"A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks."
"Follow your compass, not your clock."
"... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock."
"I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day."
"Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence."
"One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right."
"Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been."
"Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.""
"Even stopped clocks are right twice a day."
"A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still"
"Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day."
"If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?"
"Lovers ever run before the clock"