Clock Quote by Brian Selznick

“Victor Hugo: ‘No power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Sanjaya Baru

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like…

— Brian Selznick

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,…

— Raymond Quaneau

“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier…

— Rebecca Solnit

“So, what’s the status?” said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch. “Will is turning into a starship,” Hugo replied, clearly only…

— Alex Lamb

“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving…

— Terry Pratchett

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions…

— Tom Clancy

“A clock ticked somewhere in the darkness. This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could be dismissed…

— Ali Shaw

The world is a clock winding down.

— Rick Yancey

“Only one thing held my attention: the hands of a clock stopped at the minute that Frederick expired. I was deceived by the stillness…

— Chateaubriand

“He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the…

— Judith Krantz

“His last words ended exactly in time with the tick of the clock,”

— Stephanie Skeem