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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The cold knot of rage in my chest started beating like a clock, a slow, steady countdown to Alexis James's death. Tick-fucking-tock. — Jennifer Estep

If you put a clock in a bottle,
with time it will crack,
as like money, as like love,
as like a beautiful mind,
empty of a soul. — Anthony Liccione

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes? — Graham Greene

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by. — William James Moore

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming. — Sadie Jones

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks]. — Hugo Chavez

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other. — Jerry Coleman

I wish the world would stick like a clock so I could look at him for as long as I want. — Jandy Nelson

She walked toward me, her high heels perforating the polished wooden air of the Richmond's quiet basement like the slow beat of a tall clock. — Philip Kerr

I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top. — Henry Ian Cusick

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time. — Henry Ford

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. — Thomas Jefferson

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment, — Maryrose Wood

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people. — Hans Zimmer

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. — David Feherty

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off. — Anthony Kiedis

Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality. — Chris Kraus

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time. — Shunryu Suzuki

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee

I feel like I'm late for love. I'll be 30 in March. Damn it! I knew I should have set my alarm clock. — Jarod Kintz

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. — Ben Hecht

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett

Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock. — Alexandre Dumas

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking! — Luke Wilson

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner

Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day. — Don Winslow

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. — William Hazlitt

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. — Christian Marclay

For nearly twenty minutes, neither of the men spoke. A fly buzzed noisily about the room, and the ticking of the clock was like the beat of a hammer. — Oscar Wilde

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock. — Andrea Martin

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. — Pete Seeger

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere! — Guy Finley

She wondered if grief could make time run faster, like a glitch in a clock. — Jodi Picoult

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. — Austin O'Malley

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock. — Martin Freeman

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop?
Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks. — Lil' Wayne

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning. — Kate Moss

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works. — Napoleon Hill

His hands struck her any hour of the day, like hands that strike a clock, whether early, whether late; they strike, they strike. — Anthony Liccione

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time. — Roger Zelazny

I know this happiness that I feel isn't going to last, and I feel like Cinderella, waiting for the clock to strike and end my blissful night. — Anna Todd

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking. — Gregory Maguire

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. — Thomas Hardy

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — Haruki Murakami

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean De La Bruyere

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. — James Whitcomb Riley

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. — John Barrymore

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this. — Clay Aiken

Searching through Monster while on the clock feels like being on Tinder while still married. — Crystal Woods

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. — James Lafferty

It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood. — Jodi Picoult

There is no alarm clock like embarassment. — Maryrose Wood

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor. — Jonathan Maberry

The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later. — Robert Duncan

I'm one of those guys who would like to weigh about 115 pounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then go back to my own size about 5 o'clock. — Richie Allen

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers. — GZA

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington

Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. — Andrea L'Artiste

I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking. — Joe Teti

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week. — Patricia Mauceri

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby. — Debby Ryan

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport. — Benicio Del Toro

His cock swung from side to side like the pendulum of a grandfather clock on speed. — Stephen King

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside. — George Eliot

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. — Robert Walpole

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. — William Cowper

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. — James Joyce

I'm on the clock here. Besides, I thought you'd like this. There's a True Blood panel starting soon. — Jeaniene Frost

We're like an alarm clock and the rest of the world is sleeping. - Brandy Wine from GUT-CHECK GREEN. — Peter Prasad

A small poet repeats himself like a clock. — Austin O'Malley