Tick Quotes - Page 6

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

  Margery Allingham

  Doctors, Pleasure, Mechanic

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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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• 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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• When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Breathing, Way

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• While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Understanding, Use

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• ... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

  George W. Bush

  September 11, Events, Needs

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

  Johnny Depp

  Life, Dark, Light

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Nice, Hands, People

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• I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Good Life, Growing Up, Kids

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• The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Community, Pulse, Eras

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can never forget it. But that dosen't mean I can live it again. You can't live what's gone, you can only remember it, and memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone - like faded photographs, or a dried-up daisy chain at the back of a drawer. They have no substance. They can't take you back. Nothing can take you back. Nothing can be the same as it was. Nothing is. All I can do is tell it.

  Kevin Brooks

  Memories, Mean, Forever

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• Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, People, Luck

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Tunnels, Engineering

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• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

  Dennis Quaid

  Talking, People, Church

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• 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.

  Steven Pinker

  Discovery, Political, Intellectual

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