Quotes About Clocks Ticking

#1. There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.

Emma Restall Orr

#3. What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before have been and never will be again!

A.M. Williamson

#4. A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.

Mark Helprin

#6. My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#7. When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.

John McLaughlin

#8. I like knowing what makes people tick and wakes me stop ticking, like clocks.

Jay Coles

#9. The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies.

Tabitha King

#10. Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Markus Zusak

#11. I've taken advantage of the laws. And frankly, so has everybody else in my position.

Donald Trump

#12. A world of ticking clocks and creaking floorboards.

Donna Tartt

#13. Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks ...

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. When I'm ninety, I want you to tell me that it's my turn to ask you a question, and if that miracle happens, then my question is going to be, 'Do you still love me?' and I hope that answer will still be yes.

Charles Sheehan-Miles