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Top 20 topics
containing "zen":
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| | John Barrymore |  | I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. |
| | Eric Blair | | The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon - Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already - lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. |
| | William Blake | | The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. |
| | Lester Bowie | | We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out. |
| | Emily Bronte | | A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. |
| | John Mason Brown | | Among the Round Tablers at the Algonquin Hotel, Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily. |
| | Jean de la Bruyere | | Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. |
| | Angela Carter | | Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. |
| | George Chapman | | And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. |
| | Chubby Checker | | Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes. |
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