Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. — William Faulkner
Only when the clock stops does time come to life — William Faulkner
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock. — Dave Allen
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. — Bonnie Prudden
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Samuel Levenson
And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able. — Dava Sobel
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. — Hafez
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. — Vladimir Nabokov
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper
Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead. — Angelus Silesius
Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time. — Edward Fitzgerald
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. — Golda Meir
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. — Grace Hopper
Short Clockwork Quotes
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. — Cassandra Clare
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. — Voltaire
We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins. — Cassandra Clare
Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. — Cassandra Clare
Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure. — Cassandra Clare
You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) — Cassandra Clare
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. — Cassandra Clare
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things — Guillermo del Toro
If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs. — Cassandra Clare
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Image Quotes
Orange Clockwork Quotes
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. — Anthony Burgess
Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange? — Anthony Burgess
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? — Anthony Burgess
I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's. — Anita Loos
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil. — Anthony Burgess
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. — Anthony Burgess
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about! — David Prowse
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars. — David Prowse
Like Clockwork Quotes
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride. — Cassandra Clare
I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same. — Cassandra Clare
He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before. — Cassandra Clare
I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. — Anthony Burgess
Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. — Eric Roberts
If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it? — Charlie Munger
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork. — Alfred North Whitehead
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and lets them run like clockwork, indifferent to the fate of the people subject to them. — Sayings
His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky. — Cassandra Clare
Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly. — Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess Quotes
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you. — Cassandra Clare
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. — Cassandra Clare
And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls. — Cassandra Clare
A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus. “I’m Gabriel.” Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me. — Cassandra Clare
Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never mind. It’s not as if you know the meaning of loyalty —” “Gabriel.” Gideon’s voice was a reprimand to his brother. “Do not speak to Will in that manner. — Cassandra Clare
I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray — Cassandra Clare
I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered. — Cassandra Clare
There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor. — Cassandra Clare
What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together. — Cassandra Clare
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also. — Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince Quotes
Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. — Cassandra Clare
Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai? — Cassandra Clare
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. — Cassandra Clare
For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes? — Cassandra Clare
Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting. — Cassandra Clare
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. — Cassandra Clare
wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness — Cassandra Clare
Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you. — Cassandra Clare
Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous. — Cassandra Clare
Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me. — Cassandra Clare
It goes without saying, marketing teams should take a step back, rethink their marketing strategies, and become as regular as clockwork across social media platforms. — Vladimer Botsvadze
I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands. — Mathias Malzieu
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. — Anthony Burgess
So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired. — Cassandra Clare
He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything. — Cassandra Clare
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare
A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing. — Dru Pagliassotti
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. — Anthony Burgess
Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made — Cassandra Clare
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. — Anthony Burgess
Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship. — Cassandra Clare
You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you. — Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning. — Cassandra Clare
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