{"quotes":[{"text":"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["babies","birth","clocks","coincidence","famous-beginnings","heroes","midnight"],"id":10731,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.","author":"Peter May","tags":["clocks","disappointment","runaway","time","time-passing-slips-like-sand"],"id":31017,"author_id":"Peter+May"},{"text":"Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity.","author":"Whitney Smith","tags":["clocks","emo","night"],"id":31160,"author_id":"Whitney+Smith"},{"text":"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.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["clocks","time"],"id":35628,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel.","author":"Dava Sobel","tags":["clocks","earth-rotation","science","stars","time"],"id":43526,"author_id":"Dava+Sobel"},{"text":"Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..","author":"Anonymous","tags":["clock","clocks","endless","hour","hours","infinity","lost","minutes","motion","no-return","reverse","seconds","time","timeless","universe"],"id":45063,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["clocks","monuments","reflections-on-life","time","time","time-travel","watches"],"id":57000,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through space. In a way, I’m glad: this means perhaps 300 years and 364 days have passed, and tomorrow I will wake up. Sometimes after a cross-country meet or a long day at school, I’d fall into bed with all my clothes on and be out before I knew it. When I’d finally open my eyes, it would feel like I’d just shut them for a minute, but really, the whole rest of the day and half the night was gone. But. There were other times when I’d collapse onto my mattress, shut my eyes and dream, and it felt like I’d lived a whole lifetime in that dream, but when I woke up, it had only been a few minutes. What if only a year has gone by? What if we haven’t even left yet? That is my greatest fear.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["across-the-universe","amy-martin","beating-heart","clock","clocks","dream","fear","time"],"id":81915,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.","author":"Vincent Louis Carrella","tags":["child","children","clock","clocks","time"],"id":84403,"author_id":"Vincent+Louis+Carrella"},{"text":"Each of us has a cuckoo clock inside of them.For some it never chimes.For some it chimes only intermittently.For some it chimes on every hour.While for others it never stops chiming.Think about it!","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["chimes","clocks","cuckoo-clock","others","people","philosophy","some","time","watches"],"id":124082,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}