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«In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.»
Author: Earl Weaver | About: Chance, Sports | Keywords: clock, game of chance
«Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.»
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
«Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the belfry strikes one; You said you were coming right home from the shop, As soon as your day's work was done»
«Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.»
Author: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach | About: Clocks | Keywords: clock, stopped
«A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.»
«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.»
«A watched clock never tells the time»
Author: Proverb | About: Clocks, Time | Keywords: clock, watched
«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»
«Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.»

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