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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.
I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.
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.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on.
Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl
My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.
There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.
If you had asked me when I was in law school or in college or as a kid, 'Is Daniel going to be running a food company?' I would tell you you're cuckoo. What I was going to be doing was representing Israel at the United Nations.
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.
As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.
Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.
Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
I love my family more than life itself, but I can only sit at home by my pool eating barbecue food so many days before I go cuckoo.
I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
We lost the skyline
We stepped right off the map
Drifted into black space
And let the clocks relapse.
Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: 'Ryan's Daughter,' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'The Piano,' Lina Wertmuller's 'Swept Away,' 'Blade Runner.'
The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on 'Clocks' on my discman, and I fell in love.
The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
My rhymes are like shot clocks,
interstate cops
and blood clots,
my point is your flow gets stopped.
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
I auditioned for 'The Rainmaker.' Nothing. I auditioned for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' Nothing. 'Antigone' was my big break. I got a part as a Roman guard. I carried a spear.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
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.
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
I got these haters like, When he gon' stop?
Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.
What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
