# Quote — Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides

> “Whats o’clock?”
>
> It wants a quarter to twelve,
>
> And to-morrow’s doomsday.

- Author: [Tim Powers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers.md)
- Book: [On Stranger Tides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/on-stranger-tides.md)
- Page: 207
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#On_Stranger_Tides_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/on-stranger-tides/whats-oclock-it-wants

## More from this book

> The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/on-stranger-tides/the-seas-and.md)