Tick Quotes

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out. (Cat Stevens)
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. View quote
Norman Mailer
It's not easy to tick me off... I don't get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids; that'll do it every time. Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone. View quote
Ted Cruz
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means. View quote
James Jeans
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
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. View quote
Alan Tudyk
Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! View quote
Candy Crowley
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom. View quote
Carol Leifer
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. View quote
Damon Hill
I want to know about what makes an athlete tick. (Lisa Guerrero)
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. View quote
Ron Silver
My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick. View quote
Stephen A. Schwarzman
...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history. View quote
John Updike
I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed. View quote
James Frey
Living on the bodies of mammals, oxpeckers manage to get quite a varied diet. A maggot here, a tick there, a little sip of blood, perhaps a little tasty earwax. View quote
David Attenborough
Time can tick when there is no clock. View quote
Anne Rice
You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God. View quote
Dylan Thomas
I didn't know what made things tick. I didn't know what made people want to be friends. I didn't know what made people attractive to one another. I didn't know what underlay social interactions. View quote
Ted Bundy
TS (Tourette's Syndrome) has really taught me a lesson about judging people who are different. Now when I see somebody do or say something I don't understand, I try to look beyound appearances and ask myself what makes that person tick - no pun intended. Think about it: When you keep an open mind about things that seem unusual or strange, all sorts of new understanding come to you. The world gets bigger, and so do you. View quote
Neve Campbell
[The country singer] sings more sincere than most entertainers, because the hillbilly was raised tougher than most entertainers. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has, knows what he is singing about and appreciates it. For what he is singing, is the hopes, and prayers, and dreams and experiences of what some call the "common people." I call them the "best people," because they are the ones that the world is made up most of. They're really the ones who make things tick, wherever they are in this country, or in other country. (Hank Williams)
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. View quote
Steven Pinker
Our trouble is sore indeed when you turn away and will not comfort us. How long the dawn seems coming when we cannot sleep! Oh! those hideous nights when we toss and turn in fever and pain, when we lie, like living men among the dead, staring out into the dark hours that drift so slowly between us and the light. And oh! those still more hideous nights when we sit by another in pain, when the low fire startles us every now and then with a falling cinder, and the tick of the clock seems a hammer beating out the life that we are watching. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know she's right. "Tick, tock. This is a clock. View quote
Suzanne Collins
How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! View quote
Amy Lowell