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You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking. — Tim Howard

Never date a woman you can hear ticking. — Mark Patinkin

For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record ... — Chelsie Shakespeare

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language. — Boris Johnson

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking. — Louise Erickson

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. — Arthur C. Clarke

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251 — Celeste Ng

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy ... But ready to explode the second you step into the cage. — Alexander Gustafsson

the clock is ticking — Chinua Achebe

Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones. — Jay Woodman

The clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb. — Kimberly Guilfoyle

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are. — Rob Lowe

A world of ticking clocks and creaking floorboards. — Donna Tartt

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life. — Mem Fox

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. — Dennis Lehane

Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone. — Lisa Genova

Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it! — Lee In-woo

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking. — Dan Brown

I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something. — Hannah Ware

I am the ticking, i am the pulsing, i am underneath every part of this moment — David Levithan

I see walking bombs on the street
Hearts not beating, but ticking — Henry Rollins

Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock. — Sidney Knight

We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape — J.D. Robb

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking. — Richard Branson

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking. — Nicholas Hoult

Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking. — St. Vincent

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much. — Stephen King

Keeping him in here is like snuggling up to a bomb, content that it's not going to explode simply because you can still hear it ticking. — Brandon Sanderson

I like knowing what makes people tick and wakes me stop ticking, like clocks. — Jay Coles

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. — Eva Hoffman

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller

Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn't care, because if it did, it would've reversed. — Laura Kreitzer

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking! — Luke Wilson

Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time's clock with one blow. Come closer. — Virginia Woolf

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out. — Joseph Campbell

Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question. — Don Aslett

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74 — Robin Romm

Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried. — Kareena Kapoor

35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think. — Andy Serkis

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking. — Jane Lynch

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. — Erin Morgenstern

I love the ritual of drawing up lists, and there's something wonderfully satisfying about ticking tasks off. — Shaida Kazie Ali

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops! — Ke$ha

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking. — Lisa Cholodenko

I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present. — Adam Schiff

You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul. — Julia Cameron

Gin's the toughest gal I know. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking, just like a Timex. Isn't that right, Gin? — Jennifer Estep

Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you — John Geddes

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. — Carol Burnett

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that. — Heather Morris

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. — Fish

For nearly twenty minutes, neither of the men spoke. A fly buzzed noisily about the room, and the ticking of the clock was like the beat of a hammer. — Oscar Wilde

I like time ticking the way it is. — Stephen Graham

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. — Kenneth Branagh

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking. — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months. — Jennifer Grey

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. — Chadwick Boseman

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. — Frederick Forsyth

Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited. — Santosh Kalwar

And I love you and your biological clock is ticking so we best get started on that shit. — Kristen Ashley

She swung like a pendulum, ticking away the seconds until she would be dead. — Bernice L. McFadden

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. — Georg Buchner

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. — James Lafferty

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point. — Mem Fox

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass ... — Beth Revis

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

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas. — Scott Belsky

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church. — Robert Farrar Capon

For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ... — Steve Alten

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body. — Haruki Murakami

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock. — David Coleman

Dude, we both know it's only going to get worse. You're like a ticking sex bomb. — Stacey O'Neale

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable. — Alan Ball

Some women just make you want to know what makes them tick. Others make you wonder what happens when the ticking stops. — Michael Makai

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher. — Yukimi Nagano

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb. — Melanne Verveer

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport. — Benicio Del Toro

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us. — J.M. Barrie

We are in the final minutes in the day of our lives, and the clock is ticking. Loudly. I wonder if I am the only one who can hear it. — Nicholas Sparks

Trust me, today not even my Timex could take a licking and keep on ticking. Give me a Tonka truck and I'll squash it with my ink pen. (Taryn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen. — Louise Erdrich

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking. — Gregory Maguire

Sullivan had been gone for six months, and the ticking clock in D's head was getting louder and louder the longer Sully stayed off the grid. — Elle Kennedy

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. — Ernest Moniz

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics. — Arthur Caplan

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking. — Libby Trickett

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. — John C. Maxwell

This is your life and the clock is ticking. — Phil McGraw

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure. — Hans Zimmer

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. — J.J. Abrams

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber

If Kurt wanted us, and if he really wanted the crystals, he would have to find us. The game was on and the clock was ticking. — Alessia Dickson

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. — Steve Goodman

We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance. — Mark Helprin

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect. — James Bovard

I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking. — Joe Teti