watches Quotes

“Somehow, out of the watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed eleven more children after his own four were grown.”

“‘It watches,’ he added suddenly. ‘The house. It watches every move you make.’ And then, ‘My own imagination, of course.‘”

“So you can’t trust a Zook who spread bread underneath! Every Zook must be watched! He has kinks in his soul!”

“We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win the 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!′ ”