Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. William Hazlitt
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. Terry Pratchett
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. Dave Winfield
I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off. Anthony Kiedis
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. Wallace Stegner