Suze Orman

In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.

American Author

John Sandford

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

American Novelist

Michael Moore

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

American Activist

Walter Kirn

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.

Douglas Rushkoff

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

American Journalist

Elisha Cuthbert

You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.

Canadian Actress

Lionel Shriver

Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

English Writer

Daron Malakian

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

American Musician

Eric Roberts

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

American Actor

Refers to the complex parts inside machines, not just clocks.

Mechanical Inner Workings

Can describe any system working together smoothly, not only mechanics.

Metaphorical Use

Often used when someone is curious about how things work.

Curiosity Context

Used to express something that is very reliable and predictable.

Metaphor for Regularity

Doesn't always relate to actual timekeeping or clocks.

Not Literal Time

Implies that something is dependable without any doubts.

Connotation of Reliability

Relates to devices that operate by a wound spring, not batteries or other forms.

Specific Mechanism

Old-fashioned technology that can be of interest to collectors and hobbyists.

Historical Interest

In modern usage, it emphasizes a contrast with electronic devices.

Modern Rarity

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 probably, that time was the most fun I'd ever had in my life. Everything was going like clockwork we'd been working together for two or three months we traded jokes, we didn't even have to finish each other's sentences. I mean, we were quite close. And I made it pretty far on the first dive

Underwater Cave Diving:...

 along Waikiki, these animals would show up like clockwork, exactly on the lunar calendar, purposefully triggered in the predawn hours to spawn. Her research not only helps prevent jellyfish stings but has led to the creation of a topical treatment currently

Surviving a Box...

 produces a factory that works with the precision and efficiency of clockwork. In fact, if you watch ants at all, you end up trying to help them because they never seem to be doing anything exactly the way that you think that they ought to be doing it.

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 anything that does happen that we do it like clockwork and it gets done fast go rich oh nice our motto is to travel fast and travel light as quickly as we can and get away from a populated area said it let's go hey rich guide me in trade

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 They will return, like clockwork, at different times. So if they wanted the world to end, if they wanted productivity to stop, they could make it a 30-minute cycle, and no one could do anything else, right? That's a little scary.

Seth Priebatsch:...

 longevity tell you what though i prefer to live life in the fast lane now these hatchlings have emerged we can't keep up with them they're they're everywhere they're like tiny little clockwork toys that are wound up to the

Filming Galapagos Giant...

 I'm faced with my own hard truth. I'm numb. And I'm not surprised. I've traveled all across the world giving talks, and like clockwork, after every event,

Tarana Burke: Me Too is...

 well, I read an email from someone who'd read it, but -- You have to understand that we don't live in Newton's clockwork universe anymore.

How I made friends with...

 that clockwork do universe this way in other words change doesn't happen at all everyone's holding fast to their fixed

Clockwork

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