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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
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 see walking bombs on the street
Hearts not beating, but ticking — Henry Rollins
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
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
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
— Eva Hoffman
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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