Clock Words:

topic posted Wed, April 20, 2005 - 2:05 PM by  Liam
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I've been collecting Clock Metaphors, And Quotes, and other clock-isms. Please add to the list any others you come across.

Like clock work
Out of time
Killing time
Wound up
What makes ___ tick
A bit Rusty
Well oiled
Runs like clockwork
A nickel in time saves nine

"When you are given a watch, you are given a miniature hell in bloom, chains made of roses, a dungeon made of air." Julio Cort ázar


``Clocks for some reason or other always seem to be marching, and, as
with armies, marching is never to anything but doom.''
-Alan Watts
posted by:
Liam
SF Bay Area
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  • Re: Clock Words:

    Thu, July 28, 2005 - 11:42 PM
    Clean your clock
    Clock-watcher
    Stop the clock
    Clock-in
    Clock-out
    round the clock
    five O-clock shadow

    Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock

    She's wound up tighter than an 8 day clock

    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.
    William Faulkner

    We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A clock.
    Dave Allen

    You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
    Bonnie Pruden

    "We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living."
    Max Lerner

    Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
    Marie Von Ebner-Esenbach

    A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
    Dennis Miller

    May your clock run slow, your heart fast, your bile over, your wife away, your nose always.

    I'm really looking forward to seeing the clock on the playa. Great stuff!

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