Quotes About Ticking Clocks

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

Donna Tartt

#2. The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abigail Van Buren

#3. 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

#4. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Naomi Wolf

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Jay Coles

#8. 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

#9. I was always going to do terrible things because it was in my nature.

Lily Paradis

#10. 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

#11. I went into Andie's bathroom, took a piss, looked at myself in the mirror, and made myself say it: You are a cheater. You have failed one of the most basic male tests. You are not a good man. And when that didn't bother me, I thought: You're really not a good man.

Gillian Flynn

#12. We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.

Charles Lincoln Neal

#13. I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.

Marc Ashton

#14. I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

Orlando Jones

#15. 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

#16. The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

Osho

#17. I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

Thom Mayne

#18. Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

William Shakespeare

#19. I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties ...

Salvador Dali

#20. The creator of Bambi was secretly writing pornographic novels on the side. This single fact tells you everything you need to know about turn-of-the-century Vienna, and why it was the perfect place for Sigmund Freud and his far-fetched theories about the human psyche.

Eric Weiner

#21. 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