Top 100 Tick Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all.
And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
Jenny Downham
#3. It was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards.
Lisa Shearin
#4. The sun, like a boil on the bright blue ass of day, rolled gradually forward and spread its legs wide to reveal the pubic thatch of night, a hairy darkness in which stars crawled like lice, and the moon crabbed slowly upward like an albino dog tick striving for the anal gulch.
Joe R. Lansdale
#5. I love the communication aspect with my athletes. I like the one on one time with my athletes but really its about making them better athletes and finding out what makes them tick.
Robin Farina
#6. 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
#7. The minutes will Tick, the days will Pass, the Journey is Ours, Smile while it Lasts.
R.v.m.
#8. In fact, because the unself-aware - which includes basically everybody - are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and what makes them tick are surprisingly useless.
Lionel Shriver
#9. I heard water evaporating. I heard the tick of my own biology.
Tim O'Brien
#10. 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
#11. The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
Bel Kaufman
#13. There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
Russell Smith
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
Margery Allingham
#18. There was this cheap motel on the outskirts of town called the Tick-Tock Inn, with green-and-yellow vinyl curtains and beds that smelled like mothballs and ass.
Maris Black
#19. I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
Cate Blanchett
#21. It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on.
K.J. Parker
#22. I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
Simon Sinek
#23. I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.
Bill Willingham
#24. Some women just make you want to know what makes them tick. Others make you wonder what happens when the ticking stops.
Michael Makai
#25. I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.
Lisa Guerrero
#26. Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.
Emily McKay
#27. The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.
Lindsey Kelk
#28. I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
Barbara Kopple
#29. 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
#30. My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.
Brian Cox
#32. Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what makes people tick.
Steven Pinker
#34. Yet I was wound up. I tick. I exist. I am poised eighteen inches over the black rivets you are reading, I am in your place, I am shut in a bone box and trying to fasten myself on the white paper. The rivets join us together and yet for all the passion we share nothing but our sense of division.
William Golding
#35. 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
#36. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.
Michael Specter
#37. Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
Ted Dekker
#38. 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
#39. I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.
Colin Trevorrow
#41. The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
Bruce McDonald
#42. Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters.
Francesca Lia Block
#43. I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous
the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows
but also so, so removed.
Emily M. Danforth
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward,
Richard Russo
#48. We don't know much about Otrera from the old stories. Those Ancient Greek dudes didn't care where Otrera came form or what made her tick. Why would that be?
1) She was a woman.
2) She was a scary woman.
3) She was a scary woman who killed Ancient Greek dudes.
Rick Riordan
#49. Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
#50. Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
Jonathan Cain
#51. 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
#53. From beautiful do-overs on a long stretch of highway in Mexico, to many layers of life peeled away, filled with bottle caps and another car seat in the back of a minivan, time had tick-tocked its way to where it belonged.
Gail McHugh
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone
Rene Denfeld
#57. I want to inspire and encourage people and intrigue them to want to know what makes me tick, which is ultimately the love of God, the grace, peace and forgiveness of God that I'm so thankful & grateful for.
Christian Hosoi
#58. Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Patrick Warburton
#59. 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
#60. MURRY:[Father] Time is kind of a big deal and I'd rather not tick him off.
MOLLY: Heh. Tick.
Hillary DePiano
#61. There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.
Sheila Heti
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
Ron Silver
#65. Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#66. The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
Riz Ahmed
#67. I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was ... well, pretty Hollywood.
Jay Ryan
#68. You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
David Hockney
#69. The ticking inside
On the inside of him there's a wire fence
And past the wire fence is a dog And past the dog are thieves And past the thieves
Is a gang of bad dreams
And past the dreams
If you can get past the dreams Are the things that make him tick Tick, tick, tick
(Page 54).
Cath Crowley
#70. I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
Courtney Gains
#71. For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are required for a billion seconds to pass, gives one a better grasp of the relative magnitudes of these two common numbers.
John Allen Paulos
#72. 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
#73. There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.
Stephen King
#74. I just love thinking about what makes people tick
Jessica Ennis
#75. Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.
Melvin Van Peebles
#76. If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains ... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.
Clayton Christensen
#77. 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
#78. There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals ... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.
Oliver Sacks
#79. I have embraced the positive resolution certainly not to entertain any discouragement; anguish and antagonism as I am aware now that I am suppose to use them as a yard tick to measure my accomplishments and victories
Archibald Gumiro
#80. Time can tick when there is no clock.
Anne Rice
#81. There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
Davy Crockett
#82. I wonder if we should add a box to tick off
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#83. Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.
Faith Sullivan
#84. Are you decent?" Tick-Tick called through the door.
I said what I was supposed to: "No, but I'm dressed.
Emma Bull
#85. I don't micromanage, but I do care deeply about every product we make. Every one goes through me, and I try most of our products before they go to market, including our John Paul Pet flea and tick shampoo. If I don't like it, it's not coming out.
John Paul DeJoria
#86. 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
#87. Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.
Ray Comfort
#88. 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
#89. You are afraid of me?" Reed asks me, sounding unpleasantly surprised.
"Of course I'm afraid of you. You're menacing, you're overbearing, you're arrogant, and if you don't see that, then you can just add high to the list," I say, using my fingers to tick off his shortcomings.
Amy A. Bartol
#90. I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
Tallulah Bankhead
#91. Mankind is nothing more than a parasitic tick gorging himself on temporary plenty while the seas are low and the climate is clement. But the present arrangement of land and sea will change, and with it our brief supremacy.
Richard Fortey
#92. 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
#93. Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.
Maggie Stiefvater
#94. There are spaces between breaths, when one year becomes another or one second another. Between the clock's tick and the second's hand. There are all these spaces, these times. Like when a person dies. There has to be time between being there and not being there.
Anne C. George
#96. She didn't want to be one of those old ladies obsessed with death, hearing it in every tick of the clock and creak of the floorboards, as if it were prowling around the house like a burglar
Stewart O'Nan
#97. Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan W. Watts
#98. My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
#99. No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.
Eduardo Galeano
#100. The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely.
Jonathan Larson
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