#lock

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

#built #career #center #clock #clocks

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain. ↗

— Venus Williams

#blocks #get #lot #pain #play

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#days #experienced #few #i #more

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 irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking! ↗

— Luke Wilson

#clock #definitely #feel #i #i do

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks. ↗

— Richard Wilson

#bollocks #language #now #talking #you

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#like #loose #same #spring #time

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#breaking #clock #efficient #everyone #fans

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#focus #goal #just #me #one thing