Ticking Sound Quotes

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

James Thurber

#2. Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Markus Zusak

#3. Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks ...

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Not that far away, Ms. Fate, the Nightside's very own leather-costumed transvestite superheroine, was dancing on a tabletop with demon girl reporter Bettie Divine.

Simon R. Green

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

Beth Revis

#6. I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.

Steven Wright

#7. The biggest factor between winning and losing is the mental approach.

Benson Henderson

#8. It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Eileen Atkins

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

Erin Morgenstern

#10. Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues,

Junichiro Koizumi

#11. By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

Ann Druyan

#12. the girl somewhere,
who reads you,
whose skin has memorized your life.
Nothing stops her fingers;
they swim with you at night.

Larissa Szporluk

#13. My health and my family are the core of my being.

Jon Bon Jovi

#14. 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

#15. With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

Seth Troxler

#16. Thomas stepped into the hall with Newt, scared to death of what his friend might say and how crazy it might sound. The seconds were ticking away. They walked a few feet from the door before Newt stopped and faced him,

James Dashner

#17. Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Ellen Key

#18. Hello." Sara's soft, sexy voice sounded on the other end. "Mitch?" "Yeah?" Forgoing pleasantries and getting right to the point, she said, "My kitty stopped purring. I think it needs to be resuscitated."

Cathryn Fox

#19. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

William Faulkner