“…he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.”

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

“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.”

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

“The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.”

“The three men I admire most -- the father, son, and Mickie Most -- took the last train for the coast, and rendezvoused with Peter Glaze, to kill Don Maclean.
Turned Up Clocked On Laid Off, This Leaden Pall”

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”

“I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”

“There's people who can't spell 'weird' right driving round with thousands in the bank; but I get by, got a lot on my mind; I get by, got allotments on my mind.
Turned Up Clocked On Laid Off, This Leaden Pall”