Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
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… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies.… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in;… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance,… — George Michael Copy Share Image
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Were "A Clockwork Orange" or "Blue Velvet" released today, would they have the same power to shock that they had when they… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
