Ticking Clock Quotes

#1. I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

Corey Taylor

#2. When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Robert Lanza

#3. Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you

John Geddes

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

Beth Revis

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

J.J. Abrams

#6. 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

#7. I've learned that a ten-minute shower and the gift of going to the toilet without a ticking clock restores much more in new parents than personal hygiene.

Cecelia Ahern

#8. You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

Reese Witherspoon

#9. The thing that demons hate most is the sound of a ticking clock, "for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12).

Larry Zoro

#10. Flawed characters ... a ticking clock ... morally questionable acts on all sides ... moody, evocative art ... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

Christos Gage

#11. I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

Lisa Unger

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

Sidney Knight

#13. 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

#14. There is a drop of blood in the snow before me ... The coyote ... is in estrus ... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.

Craig Childs

#15. Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

Lauren DeStefano

#16. For the starship's inhabitants, time now stands still.
For planet Earth, the clock has begun ticking ...

Steve Alten

#17. It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

David Coleman

#18. The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner.

Erin Morgenstern

#19. When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

Ke$ha

#20. And I love you and your biological clock is ticking so we best get started on that shit.

Kristen Ashley

#21. Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

John C. Maxwell

#22. I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".

Elizabeth Lesser

#23. Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.

Lisa Genova

#24. That window is closing ... Now, the clock is ticking ... We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process ... We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

Barack Obama

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

Scott Adams

#28. The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.

Peter Schiff

#29. Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

Luke Wilson

#30. You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.

Tim Howard

#31. The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

Ernest Moniz

#32. I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

Max Winkler

#33. I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present.

Adam Schiff

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#35. I tell myself I have time. But the itch forming along the back of my neck and across my shoulders says otherwise.
I hate this. It's like I'm racing a clock ticking down to doomsday without knowing how much time I have left.

Erica Cameron

#36. And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

James Lee Burke

#37. People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

Steve Goodman

#38. Peace is a process, not a shot clock with seconds ticking away and a buzzer at the finish. It's the result of many decisions, not just one. Don't expect otherwise, and don't fail to recognize how far you've risen from the depths of your despair.

Emily March

#39. The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke

#40. I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

JoBeth Williams

#41. It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.

Rachel Vincent

#42. 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

#43. When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

Benicio Del Toro

#44. I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

Joe Teti

#45. I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

Tim Howard

#46. For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

Marcia Cross

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

Kenneth Branagh

#48. My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.

Louise Erdrich

#49. You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul.

Julia Cameron

#50. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

Conor McPherson

#51. This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

Bill Hybels

#52. Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time's clock with one blow. Come closer.

Virginia Woolf

#53. I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

Jane Lynch

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

Richard Branson

#55. the clock is ticking

Chinua Achebe

#56. Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

Carol Leifer

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

Haruki Murakami

#58. - he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

Ken Kesey

#59. When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

Michael Light

#60. 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

#61. There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Christopher Hitchens

#62. 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

#63. Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

Jay Leno

#64. 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

#65. The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

Robin Romm

#66. What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#67. 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

#68. She was a clock, I could tell by the ticking in her wrist. (I'd secretly slipped my thumb down, to feel her pulse as we danced. It was perfectly steady and wreaking havoc with mine.) I could keep time by you, I thought.

Elizabeth McCracken

#69. Such is life, marked by the ticking of the clock and the call of the alarm until the day it all falls into perpetual silence. For most of us, certainly for this boy, life is not composed of great deeds, but of small actions, and that's okay. It's the best I can give and I like it this way.

Gillibran Brown

#70. Every clock is a bomb, ticking away at the minutes of our lives, counting off the seconds one by one before we die.
At birth a heart it given a certain number of beats. The clock is counting them off one by one and will not allow a man any more than his allotted share.

Carolee Dean

#71. When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

Gregory Maguire

#72. When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.

Paul Harding

#73. This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Phil McGraw

#74. Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Lisa Cholodenko

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

Chadwick Boseman

#76. The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#77. I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don't notice the little things. It's only when the clock is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#78. Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

Kareena Kapoor

#79. People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course
with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here
to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James