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The cold knot of rage in my chest started beating like a clock, a slow, steady countdown to Alexis James's death. Tick-fucking-tock.
— Jennifer Estep
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
— Karl Shapiro
People with Tourettes ... What makes them tick?
— Jimmy Carr
I just love thinking about what makes people tick
— Jessica Ennis
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.
— Brian Greene
I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
— Tallulah Bankhead
I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
— Simon Sinek
Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
— Margery Allingham
If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone
— Rene Denfeld
There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.
— Sadie Jones
People are fascinating, aren't they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick?
— Kate Morton
He was wearing a blue tracksuit that had a white tick mark embroidered at the hip, as if he approved of something. It
— Manu Joseph
Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Yeah, we know. Tick, tock. Nuts is in shock,
— Suzanne Collins
I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
— Courtney Gains
My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
— Stephen A. Schwarzman
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
— David Hockney
Have fun with that. I know I will. You've got five minutes before I'm on your clock. Tick. Tock." And
— K. Bromberg
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
— Davy Crockett
Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
— Kinky Friedman
When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.
— Tite Kubo
Maybe it's better not to know some things. Mysteries make us tick more than just about anything else.
— Jason Carter Eaton
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
— Don Kardong
Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead. — Angelus Silesius
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead. — Angelus Silesius
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
— Dallas Roberts
If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...
— Barry James Hickey
We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock
— Ronnie Cornelisz
Before her parents were killed, Lena hadn't minded school. She had even liked some of her classes. Now school was just watching the clock tick.
— Aaron Michael Ritchey
Each passing moment, every breath I took, I was worried I'd hear a tick, but not live long enough to hear its tock.
— Cameron Jace
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. And in any ONE of them you can decide to CHANGE your life. Tick tock tick tock.
— Sven Paardekooper
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
— Ron Silver
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
MURRY:[Father] Time is kind of a big deal and I'd rather not tick him off.
MOLLY: Heh. Tick. — Hillary DePiano
MOLLY: Heh. Tick. — Hillary DePiano
I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.
— Kerry Greenwood
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
— Bel Kaufman
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
— Candace Bushnell
When things don't happen, people get Sick. They see time Tick and they want it Quick. They forget that Success happens brick by brick.
— R.v.m.
What makes your brand stick and tick is your ability to make it memorable
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
— Big Boi
Just for a moment, she could hear the muffled tick tick from inside its mouth before it disappeared underneath the murky surface, and curled away.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
I didn't need to control her ... Hell, I just wanted to sit back and watch her, try to figure out what made her tick and hold on for the ride.
— Joanna Wylde
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.
— James Jeans
Tick tock, this is a clock.
— Suzanne Collins
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
Tick tock? I didn't care how long he thought it was taking me to get to the beach, I was not crashing my new car by rushing.
— Emma Doherty
Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.
— Melvin Van Peebles
You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
— Robert Breault
Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one. — Terry Pratchett
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one. — Terry Pratchett
Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity
— Whitney Smith
Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them. I'm satisfied with it. It's a good enough tick for me." "Sho, there's
— Mark Twain
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
— Candy Crowley
I feel like a tick on a dog.
— Cody Lundin
Are you decent?" Tick-Tick called through the door.
I said what I was supposed to: "No, but I'm dressed. — Emma Bull
I said what I was supposed to: "No, but I'm dressed. — Emma Bull
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
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
— David Ogden Stiers
Not baked goods! BAKED BADS!!!!"
--The Tick — Ben Edlund
--The Tick — Ben Edlund
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.
— Raymond Kelly
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines.
— Edgar Lee Masters
Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.
— Michael Robotham
Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.
— Lloyd John Ogilvie
What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?
— Gloria Feldt
Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick. — Laura Kreitzer
Tick, tick, tick. — Laura Kreitzer
I wonder if we should add a box to tick off
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not. — Lois McMaster Bujold
How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!
— Joe Abercrombie
Some women just make you want to know what makes them tick. Others make you wonder what happens when the ticking stops.
— Michael Makai
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
— Bruce McDonald
Tick's eyes twinkled, and he drew a long sip of coffee. Poor Kate ... wanting to run the world and yet no one will let her.
— Elizabeth Camden
Don't wish, Miss Tick had said. Do things.
— Terry Pratchett
He found himself becoming more attuned to her moods, her cycles; he listened to her tick as if she were a wounded clock. 'As
— Stephen King
I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.
— Lisa Guerrero
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
I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.
— Jamie Dornan
Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army
— Jeanne DuPrau
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
— Lisa Cron
The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?
— Donny Deutsch
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
— Brooke Burke
The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.
— Lindsey Kelk
But he never forgot how once by not knowing time,
He escaped into the clockless land of ever,
Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born. — U.A. Fanthorpe
He escaped into the clockless land of ever,
Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born. — U.A. Fanthorpe
Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward,
— Richard Russo
Time can tick when there is no clock.
— Anne Rice
Despite the pressing insistence of the ordinary and the mundane, we must make the best time of the time we have before the tick tick ticking ends.
— Laurence Overmire
Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. Pass it does. Even for me.
— Stephenie Meyer
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
— Jonathan Cain
Just a tick past fruition sits decay.
— Kristin Kimball