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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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Science, Historical

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• I’m the bomb like tick tick.

  Lil Wayne

  Bombs

  "Song: "Bitch I'm The Bomb Like Tick Tick" (Album: "Tha Carter III")". 2008.

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

  Jay Leno

  Dog, Nervous, High Strung

  Jay Leno (2007). “Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.

  Sara Genn

  Accomplishment, Feelings, Stuff

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• The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Disappointment, Loss

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• Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they've heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn't even know they wanted.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Listening, Needs

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• You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

  Tommy Mottola

  Artist, Views, Understanding

  "Interview With Tommy Mottola, Music Industry Legend and Author of Hitmaker". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

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• Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

  Patrick Warburton

  Book, Character, Cartoon

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European governments, and of the US government. To the independent countries in the world, I would like to say: You should know that the influence of the Zionist network on your culture, your politics, and your economy is tantamount to a violation of your independence. They cling like ticks. The moment they gain influence, they never stop.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, Mistake, Actors

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