“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.” — P.G. Wodehouse 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
“That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.” — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare 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
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.' — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel” — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way,… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
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
An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read… — Anthony Burgess 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
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
The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love:… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“When we were only several hundred-thousand years old, we built stone circles, water clocks. Later, someone forged an iron spring, set clockwork… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The finished clock is resplendent. At first glance it is simply a clock, a rather large black clock with a white face… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
