Clockwork Philip Pullman Quotes & Sayings

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you. — Dolly Parton

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players. — Saffron Burrows

sublimation concept - in which the term refers to an actual deinstinctualization of drive rather than to a rechanneling of — Jay R. Greenberg

Now that you've abducted me, does this mean you're going to strip me naked and probe me? — Eve Langlais

I bet even this little boy will grow up to be an adult before he realizes. He'll just become an adult like that. Whether he accepts it or resists until the end is a big fork in the path of life, I suppose. — Inio Asano

The point is not to let the orthography distract the reader from the meaning. — Mary Norris

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story. — Philip Pullman

We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race
I will come first
and you wind up the future like clockwork. The world has no choice but to obey! Can the hands of that old clock in the corner decide to stop? Can the spring in your watch decide to wind itself up and run backward? No! They have no choice. And nor has the future, once you have wound it up. — Philip Pullman