Tick Quotes

• Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

  Jim Morrison

  Real, Doors, Suits You

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

  Max Lerner

  Running, Time, Men

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

  Ogden Nash

  Learning, Men, Wife

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• The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Carpe Diem, Bombs, Window

  1964 Quentin. After the Fall, act1.

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• I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

  James Thurber

  Fall, Simple, Expression

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• We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

  Steven Pinker

  Heaven, Fleas, Dry

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• I just love thinking about what makes people tick

  Jessica Ennis

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

  Davy Crockett

  Government, Bloodsuckers

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• Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Critics, Motor

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

  Laurence Overmire

  Thinking, Men, Years

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• You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

  Maya Banks

  Thinking, Feels

  Maya Banks (2013). “Rush”, p.122, Penguin

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• People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Time can tick when there is no clock.

  Anne Rice

  Clock

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.269, Random House

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• Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

  Suzanne Collins

  Horse, Memories, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• Time is of your own making;
  Its clock ticks in your head.
  The moment you stop thought
  Time too stops dead.

  Angelus Silesius

  Time, Moments, Clock

  Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.39, World Wisdom, Inc

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• You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

  Robert Breault

  Change, Thinking, Tock

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• It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'

  Terry Rossio

  Appreciation, Men, Optimism

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• The danger of course is always is caricature. The biggest challenge was to sound like Nelson Mandela. Everything else is easy to do, walk like him. He has a few ticks and things I noticed that I picked up. I didn't have any agenda, as it were, in playing the role other than to bring it as close to reality as I possibly could.

  Matt Damon

  Reality, Challenges, Sound

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

  Kim Harrison

  Silly, Needs, Use

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• There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

  Oliver Sacks

  Sound, Example, Digital

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• Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Gale, Clock

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Parent, Generations

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• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Team, Athlete

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• But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Civilization, Shadow

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• The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Senior, Responsibility, People

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