Tick Quotes

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

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.

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

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

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?

An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.

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.

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

As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

Understanding what makes you 'tick' isn't half as much fun as finding out what makes you 'tock'!

Tick-Tock Tick-Tock Memory The tick tock tick tocks goes the clockThe memory in my heart not aged but I am aged, As the tick tock tick tock goes on.