#clock

Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel ↗

— Dava Sobel

#earth-rotation #science #stars #time #science

But what of you?” Gabriel said, and they were very close now, almost touching. “It is your choice to make now, to stay or return.” “I will stay,” Cecily said. “I choose the war.” Gabriel let out the breath he hadn’t realized he was holding. “You will give up your home?” “A drafty old house in Yorkshire?” Cecily said. “This is London.” “And give up what is familiar?” “Familiar is dull.” “And give up seeing your parents? It is against the Law …” She smiled, the glimmer of a smile. “Everyone breaks the Law.” “Cecy,” he said, and closed the distance between them, though it was not much, and then he was kissing her—his hands awkward around her shoulders at first, slipping on the stiff taffeta of her gown before his fingers slid behind her head, tangling in her soft, warm hair. She stiffened in surprise before softening against him, the seam of her lips parting as he tasted the sweetness of her mouth. When she drew away at last, he felt light-headed. “Cecy?” he said again, his voice hoarse. “Five,” she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. “Five?” he echoed blankly. 907/1090 “My rating,” she said, and smiled at him. “Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice.” “And you are willing to be my tutor?” “I should be very insulted if you chose another,” she said, and leaned up to kiss him again. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cecily #cecily-herondale #clockwork-princess #gabriel #gabriel-lightwood

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. ↗

— James Lafferty

#completely #drives #fan #go #i

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean? ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#clock #come #food #get #give

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#big #clock #could #fit #force

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. ↗

— Bette Midler

#london #new #new york #still #three

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#believe #bush #clock #decades #gave

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#comes #find #law #library #looking

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. ↗

— Alan Coren

#chocolate #clock #cuckoo #give #invented

I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach. ↗

— Clive Owen

#get #i #i do #point #upsetting