Observatory Master Clock

Famous quotes containing the words observatory, master and/or clock:

    “Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Such thought such though have I that hold it tight
    Till meditation master all its parts,
    Nothing can stay my glance
    Until that glance run in the world’s despite
    To where the damned have howled away their hearts,
    And where the blessed dance....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “What brought them there so far from their home,
    Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam,
    What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
    Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass
    That sat so still and played at the chess?
    What but heroic wantonness?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)