On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o' clock.
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational syst...
Olaf Oleeson: My love for you is ticking clock BERSERKER! Would you like to suck my cock BERSERKER! Willam Black: That's beautiful, man!
Carolyn Perron: Roger, this clock stopped at 3:07 and so did the one in the hallway. Roger Perron: That's weird. Maybe it got knocked around in the move.
Wanda: I looked at the clock... because I was saying to myself... It's five to seven, where could he be going with that sawed off shotgun?
Station Inspector: [to his dog while in the bath] If he is deceased, then who has been winding the clocks? [cut to reveal that the Inspector and the dog are in the bath together]
[cutting between Indiana and Willie's rooms] Willie: [looks at her clock] Five minutes... Indiana Jones: [looks at his] Four and a half...
Harmonica: [to Frank, spotting a gunman above a painted clock] Time sure flies! It's already past twelve.
Dr. Lawrence Gordon: That clock. It's brand new. Adam: So? Dr. Lawrence Gordon: So someone obviously wanted us to know the time.
I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the ...
I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. As normal cells go through life, their telomeres shorten with each divi...
... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...
Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.
If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.
Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!
And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.
