It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out. – Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 17. Huck describing the clock on the mentelpiece in the Grangerford house.
And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman
I would like to have a ‘Lost’ clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top. – Henry Ian Cusick
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. – Heinz R. Pagels
With comedies, it’s been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out. – John Cena
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn’t use it. – J. J. Abrams
I marketed pens – on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, ‘Hi, how ya doing?’ You made up a name, like, ‘Hey, it’s Edward Quartermaine from California. You’re eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.’ You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens. – Johnny Depp
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. – Jean de la Bruyere
Directing is physically exciting because there’s a ticking clock, you’re working with people, it’s very social, it’s very enjoyable. – Alan Ball
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker. – Brian Selznick
What everyone loved about ’24’ is still there – the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing. – Corey Hawkins
As a kid at the World’s Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion – I was really disappointed. – Bill Nye
What’s the difference between me and Mark Udall on contraception? I believe the pill ought to be available over the counter, around the clock, without a prescription. Cheaper and easier for you. – Cory Gardner
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. – Ben Shapiro
Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn’t like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy’s clock. – Chris Matthews
A key flaw of the Obama administration’s approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has enabled the Taliban to believe they can simply wait out the clock. – Peter L. Bergen
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it’s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. – Garrison Keillor
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. – Chadwick Boseman