Famous quotes containing the words start and/or clocks:
“When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody’s embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)