Clockwork Quotes

Clockwork Quote of the day

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

For love is as strong as death.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

The right man won't care

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?

Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

All Lightwoods look the same to me—

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

I am not the one of us who has no heart.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.

I have lost everything. Lost everything. Everything. - William Herondale

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'

The measure of love is to love without measure.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.