Clock Ticking Quotes

• When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane

  James Lafferty

  Sleep, Clock Is Ticking, Insane

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• Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Time, Regret

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

  JoBeth Williams

  Girl, Baby, Clock Is Ticking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

  Scott Adams

  Clock Is Ticking, Bullets, Deadline

  "'Dilbert' creator on working at home, getting his voice back". www.cnn.com. November 7, 2007.

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• When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Sports, Clock Is Ticking, Clock

  "Benicio Del Toro on Savages and Licence to Kill". Interview with Fred Topel, www.craveonline.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

  Jane Lynch

  Clock, Heard, Biological Clock

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

  Anna Quindlen

  Waste, Easy, Hours

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

  Thornton Wilder

  Earth, Realizing, Wonderful

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Clock Is Ticking, Priorities

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• Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Years, Worry, Worried

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• The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Moving, Book, Smell

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• Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

  Bjork

  Lying, How You Feel, Emotion

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• And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

  James Lee Burke

  People, Waste, Clock

  James Lee Burke (2010). “Heaven's Prisoners”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

  Conor McPherson

  Beautiful, Country, House

  "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Iran, Two, Democracy

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.

  Emma Restall Orr

  Philosophy, Believe, Doe

  Emma Restall Orr (2012). “The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing

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• I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

  Thornton Wilder

  Coffee, Sleep, Sunflower

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Wall, Thinking, Overcoming

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grief, Night, Blue

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Real, Character

  "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Stupid, Pigs

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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