#clocks

And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. The hands were extended, slightly off the horizontal at a faint angle, like a gull tilting into the wind. ↗

— William Faulkner

#time #life

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#love

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#clocks #get #going #making #our

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. ↗

— Kit Williams

#built #career #center #clock #clocks

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' ↗

— Doug Coupland

#clock #clocks #future #get #i

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#clocks #fathers #indians #least #merely

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#clocks #constant #go #irregular #man

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! ↗

— Ben Jonson

#clocks #engine #forget #his #keep

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#clocks #fifteen #fifteen minutes #hour #i

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution