Grandfather Clock Sayings

#1. At morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock ...

John Geddes

#2. The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do.

She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

Rachel Hauck

#3. Finally, I've reached the grandfather clock. Its face has no hands, only the words TIME IS, TIME WAS, TIME IS NOT. Highly metaphysical; deeply useless.

David Mitchell

#4. It was I who stayed awake wrestling with the shadows on the ceiling and the taunting of the grandfather clock

Nina G. Jones

#5. In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.

John L. Parker Jr.

#6. [Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

Ann Coulter

#7. His cock swung from side to side like the pendulum of a grandfather clock on speed.

Stephen King

#8. The parlor was inhabited by a monstrous hog's head (afflicted with droop-jaw & lazy-eye), killed by the twins on their sixteenth birthday, & a somnambulant Grandfather clock (at odds with my own pocket watch by a margin of hours. Indeed, one valued import from New Zealand is the accurate time).

David Mitchell

#9. I think there's some part of everyone, that's turned into the memories of a place. Strong feelings leave an inmprint on the air that echo back to whorever's unlucky enought to walk through that place again.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

Milan Kundera

#11. Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Margaret Of Valois

#12. Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace!

Ludacris

#13. And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do
if there's enough of it
is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

Esther Duflo

#14. You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

Jeff Foxworthy

#15. Something rippled round the table: a loosening, a settling, a long sigh too low to hear. Un ange passe, my French grandfather would have said: an angel is passing. Somewhere upstairs I heard the faint, dreamy note of a clock striking.

Tana French