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Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely. Stacey D'Erasmo

If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

Bruce Lipton

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

Ben Jonson

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.'

Douglas Coupland

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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

e. e. cummings

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

I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.

Spike Milligan

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

Garry Shandling

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Michael Ende

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

Lynne Truss

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

Thomas Otway

It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.

Michael Rosbash

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

Jake Halpern

People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.

Jeffrey C. Hall

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

Thomas Steinbeck