“Time can tick when there is no clock.”

“People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. ”

“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

“You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”

“The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.”

“It's no fun being a broody Iranian woman. Every time I said to people "My body clock is ticking," they would hit the ground!”

“In the Land of Memory the time is always.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick… but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it.”

“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour…. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”

“"Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know she's right. "Tick, tock. This is a clock."”