Tick Quotes - Page 6

• As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Belgium, Commentators

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• Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

  Michael Wilbon

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

  Bruce McDonald

  Our Society, Manipulation, Masters

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• It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Gains, Conformity

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• How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

  Amy Lowell

  Rooms, Emptiness, Empty

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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• I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Drinking, Goats, Mink

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

  Margery Allingham

  Doctors, Pleasure, Mechanic

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• The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along
  Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong.
  The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day
  Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray.
  So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream
  You've an army at hand; your command is supreme;
  And question yourself, as it goes on review--
  Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if 'The Tick' was a graphic novel!

  Kurt Fuller

  Character, Makeup, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

  Rich Mullins

  Smart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Jobs, People, Needs

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• I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

  Don Kardong

  Moose, Disease, Ill

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

  Christopher Pike

  Dark, Light, Thieves

  Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

  Norman Mailer

  Conformity, Unimportant, Non Conformity

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.352, Henry Holt and Company

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• I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

  Jim Harrison

  Stars, Effort, Together

  Jim Harrison (2008). “Julip: A Novel”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. “Or maybe it was more---after the bomb,” the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. “I think it was the bomb,” Iggy agreed. “That definitely seemed to tick them off.” “Bomb?” I asked incredulously.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

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• Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

  Alan Tudyk

  Reading, Rumination, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Math, Two, Illustration

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• Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.

  Mina Loy

  Brain, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.

  Mavis Gallant

  Dream, Grief, Childhood

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• The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

  David McCullough

  Luck, Human Nature, Humans

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.

  Lloyd John Ogilvie

  Character

  Dr Lloyd John Ogilvie (1985). “Making Stress Work for You”, W Publishing Group

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  Candace Bushnell

  People, Stories, Remember

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• Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

  Curtis Joseph

  Important

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