Broken Clock Quotes

#1. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. It was bound to happen eventually.

Darynda Jones

#2. When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

William J. Clinton

#3. Even a broken clock is right twice every day.

Anita Diamant

#4. Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#5. Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day.

Don Winslow

#6. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Orson Scott Card

#7. Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#8. It hurts my head to think of how many things had to happen for our paths to intersect. Of all those numberless little fortunes that led me to you. A broken alarm clock, a delayed train, a sudden downpour, and there we were. You and I, sharing coffee, our whole lives ahead of us.

Beau Taplin

#9. Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.

Tipper Gore

#10. I'm saying it isn't a matter of stoping the clock, but of making it run backward. And for that, the clock will need to be broken.

Cassandra Clare

#11. That clock's a lot like the town, she decided. Looks good, sounds great, pretends to be some sort of masterpiece. But it's broken. It's rotten and broken right down inside where its heart's cogs meet. That's Toll.

Frances Hardinge

#12. Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap.

Sarah Beth Durst

#13. We have to get the ... the thing I got ... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home."
Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

Neil Gaiman

#14. It was like a blackout in reverse. Since around nine o'clock, no lamps could be switched off, no electrical appliances powered down. If you tried to pull out the plug there was an alarming crackling sound and sparks flew between the outlet and the plug, preventing the circuit from being broken.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#15. I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

Jack Osbourne

#16. Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Camille Paglia

#17. An old, round clock, its one remaining hand ornate and frozen under the broken glass at a quarter past two. The

Kyra Wheatley

#18. In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.

Vikram Seth

#19. A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a ... a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.

Jacqueline Carey

#21. I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.

Neil Gaiman

#22. Turn back time to half-past innocence. But that clock's lying on its side, hour hand spinning wildly, in a dirty Dublin alley near a gold makeup pouch half concealed by trash, and an address carved in stone by a dying woman. Broken.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

James Buchan

#24. Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

Marcia Clark

#25. There's a saying that timing is everything, but my life's clock must be broken.

Renee Ericson

#26. Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres