Top 39 Clink Quotes
#1. She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.
William Peter Blatty
#2. He took a couple of steps. "I clink," he said. "It's undignified."
"Everybody clinks. It's what soldiers do.
K.J. Parker
#3. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?
Vera Nazarian
#4. The whole area, manor house, Clink, all eighteen brothels and the handsome profits therefrom, belonged to and was ruled by the bishop.
Edward Rutherfurd
#5. What are we toasting?" I ask, slightly bemused. "Reward for employer of the year?"
It's a dumb joke, and I almost groan at my own crappy attempt at humour. Our glasses clink and Hue just sighs.
"My only reward will be the sweet embrace of death
Ruby Nox
#6. Lev was a clink in my armor, a crack in my wall,
Belle Aurora
#7. No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.
John Robert Seeley
#8. He cocks his head to the side as if listening. "There. Did you hear it?"
"What?"
"The clink of coins as I just earned a few thousand more."
I roll my eyes.
J. Kenner
#9. Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination. Hear a speech declaring a holy war and, I assure you, your ears should catch the clink of evil's scales and the dragging of its monstrous tail over the purity of the language.
Terry Pratchett
#10. At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.
Alison Croggon
#11. How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
Eugene Field
#12. With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled. You want to get married?
Cassandra Clare
#14. Carl just needed to hear the clink of glasses, the glug of a drink being poured. I picked up the phone, shaking a tumbler of ice near the receiver so Carl could imagine his gin.
Gillian Flynn
#15. Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume,
Anne Perry
#16. And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.
Vikram Seth
#17. I saw the mountain, impassible, cavernous, secret, where from morning to night I'd hear nothing but the wind, the curlews, the clink like distant silver of the stone-cutters' hammers.
Samuel Beckett
#18. I shut my eyes and she was again the same as she used to be: she was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.
Graham Greene
#19. I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in schools, full of wars and politics and cultural revolution - the smaller, softer history of a world with only two people in it.
Isaac Marion
#20. If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
John Ruskin
#22. Glasses clink together and I can feel the sexual tension bottled in the room from all the way out here. These are the kinds of places I avoid at all cost, because I can't breathe very well in them.
Jessica Sorensen
#23. [M]y Coke hit the floor with a metallic clink, so much like the sound of a bullet casing being dropped.
Mira Grant
#24. The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.
Paul Monette
#25. Morgan had been, for a very long time, the most remarkable object in her own landscape, and anything stranger than herself was, to her mind, either an obvious sham, or non-existent.
Shirley Jackson
#27. I've worn wigs. I've done a few plays where I have to wear a wig because they needed longer hair.
Stark Sands
#28. I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive.
Gretchen Carlson
#29. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.
Paul Arden
#30. He took the laser pointer off the side table and flicked it on, dancing its red light over the wall. Comet finished eating then walked over like he wasn't really interested, like he just happened to be passing by, but then went predictably crazy.
Nina Post
#32. Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
Bill Jay
#33. Someone who is motivated solely by the desire to become rich and famous might struggle hard to get ahead but will rarely have enough inducement to work beyond what is necessary, to venture beyond what is already known.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#34. They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.
Zadie Smith
#35. The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
Amos Lee
#36. The only true failure is the failure of not trying.
Tony Clink
#37. I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
Mark Twain
#38. One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.
Donna Lynn Hope
#39. Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.
Susan Andersen