Quotes About Ticks

#1. Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.

Angelus Silesius

#2. The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Arthur Miller

#3. I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story can have the most fascinating plot in the world, but if the narrator's voice is dull, then the plot counts for nothing. For me, authorial charm is everything.

Victoria Connelly

#4. (B)ut tiny troubles had a way of swelling, like ticks grown fat with blood.

Ann Aguirre

#5. Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

Nicki Minaj

#6. Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs.

David McRaney

#7. That ticks me off!" She snapped. "Since when could you bribe me with treats like a fucking child."
I groaned, pinching the bridge of my nose. "So no smoothie then?"
"Mango, banana, orange and extra kiwi," she replied before hanging up.

J.J. McAvoy

#8. I'm a chalkboard that's been erased over and over again until there's nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.

Sarah McCarry

#9. WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARDS
This is the Cordovites' premier wormhole, where time ticks backward, trees grow down, light eats itself, fear is an opening, and life is Sovereign, Deadly, Perfect.

Marisha Pessl

#10. Everything about her disarms me:her smile, her touch, her spirit.Little by little, she's diffusing the bomb that constantly ticks, the one threatening to rip me apart-and I don't even think she gets it.

Beth Michele

#11. I have a burgundy waistcoat that ticks in the dead of night, it being my favourite and the one that carries my pocket watch from day to day.

Fennel Hudson

#12. There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

Sadie Jones

#13. For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

Chungliang Al Huang

#14. For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.

Louis J. Halle

#15. The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

David Levithan

#16. Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Eddie Van Halen

#17. Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Kinky Friedman

#18. What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Gloria Feldt

#19. Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Edward Abbey

#20. Facilitator of mass murder, smiling a Judas smile as she ticks the boxes.

M.R. Carey

#21. 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

#22. Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Henry Spencer

#23. The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in.

Emily McKay

#24. The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue. The treaty's signed, but the cancer ticks in your bones. Until I'd murdered my father and fornicated my mother I wasn't wise enough to see I was Oedipus.

John Barth

#25. 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

#26. Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.

Michael Dobbs

#27. Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. Poly, meaning 'many.' Ticks meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.

Mary Doria Russell

#28. In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

Richard Smalley

#29. The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.

Aneta Cruz

#30. Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity.

Amy Harmon

#31. Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.

Kevin Michel

#32. 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

#33. I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

Jeff Foxworthy

#34. What if the Ancients used the number of ticks to mark the time of day, instead of the height of the sun or moon? so highmoon could happen here.." "That way highmoon is not the time; highmoon is happening at the different time every night. If you're counting the ticks as time.

Sharon Cameron

#35. But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

Hans Zinsser

#36. Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.

Lloyd John Ogilvie

#37. The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity.

Monica Ali

#38. A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.

Bernard Malamud

#39. The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

Gordon MacQuarrie

#40. I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.

Bill Burr

#41. When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off.

Rush Limbaugh

#42. The clock ticks for every one of us. It is your own choice how you spend your remaining days.

Bronnie Ware

#43. We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

Malcolm Wilson

#44. Melville has his tics, but he always put his words in the right order. Once you fall under the spell of the writer, you look past those ticks because you are more interested in what the writer says than judging how well he grasped the editorial conventions of his time.

Mary Norris

#45. 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

#46. Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Curtis Joseph

#47. There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Davy Crockett

#48. Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.

Maggie Stiefvater

#49. Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line.

Lauren Oliver

#50. I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

Melanie Chisholm

#51. The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other, painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert.

Virginia Woolf

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

Eddie Redmayne

#53. With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

Ted Hughes

#54. You cannot bargain with me. My heart is the clock. Find medicine before it ticks dry, and buy your friend's life. Fail and his corpse is all you will find here.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#55. When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#56. The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

Odo Simon Agbo

#57. Lyme disease is preventable, but only if Canadians have the information they need to prevent it.

Vanessa Farnsworth