Annoying Quote by Terry Pratchett

“It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the…

— Terry Pratchett

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and…

— William Faulkner

Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside…

— Markus Zusak

“It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. It's pendulum swung to and fro…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“How on earth could he not see it? It stood on the wooden floor behind him, in the corner just inside the door, where…

— Helen Garner

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with…

— Charles Dickens

“He’d heard the time seep away, a poisonous tick-tock in his mind, every beat of the clock a mocking reminder of mortality and pain.”

— Gena Showalter

“Someone very clever—certainly someone much cleverer than whoever had trained that imp—must have made the clock for the Partrician’s waiting room. It went tick-tock…

— Terry Pratchett

It was as relaxing as being tickled.

— Jeremy Clarkson

“There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.”

— Sadie Jones

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

— Jay Leno

“A Watched Clock never ticks”

— Mwha