#clock

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #william-herondale #marriage

Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.” “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #jessamine-lovelace #will-herondale #words

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #magnus-bane #magnus-bane

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. ↗

— John Barrymore

#clock #find #give #give me #i

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#baseball #baseball game #clock #explained #football

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

— Georg Buchner

#clock #death #drop #each #fever

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#blackberry #clock #i #me #needs

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#clock #creatively #get #having #i

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#back #caricature #clock #commentary #doing

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#better #broken #clock #conflict #constant