Tick Quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
David Pogue
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. View quote
Ray Comfort
The Tick comes to mind. ... that was just my favorite thing ever, and it was so smart and clever, and I loved it. I felt honored to get to step into the shoes of the Tick, and it just didn't get love...not from the network, you know. The network killed it. It's had a pretty fantastic after life on DVD, but it could have been a great series if they decided they wanted to spend any money at all back at the time. It became all about reality TV for them. They discovered they could spend very little money and get huge numbers. View quote
Patrick Warburton
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. View quote
Patrick Warburton
Remember what we once were and what we thought we'd be. And now this. And it's all we have, Allan, it's us. Every step we've taken -- every tick of the clock -- making everything worse. If this is all life is, what's the use? Better to die, like carol, before you find it out, before Time gets to work on you. I've felt it before, Allan, but never as I've done tonight. There's a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time. View quote
J. B. Priestley
I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors. View quote
Terry Pratchett
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it. View quote
Buddy Hackett
You and I, we're two of a kind, I hate to say it but you'll never relate, what makes you tick? It makes me smile. ~. View quote
Pete Yorn
The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, "Do you have a reasonably intelligent girlfriend who shares your aspirations, and who is fully prepared to accept your limited availability? (Maureen Johnson)
The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals. View quote
Richard Thaler
I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick. View quote
Simon Sinek
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. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick. View quote
Candace Bushnell
I have a better understanding of my body now. ... Everyone wants to feel fresh in the game – there's no better feeling – so I just make sure I'm doing the right things and trying to tick every box: cryotherapy, massage, eating the right things. ... I think I've managed [to adopt veganism] successfully. ... I don't find anything hard to give up, as such, because I know the feeling scoring goals gives me. ... I just want to try to play as long as I can. So I do the stuff that will give me the best opportunity to perform and score goals. View quote
Jermain Defoe
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay. View quote
Brooke Burke
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. View quote
Christopher Pike
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? View quote
David McCullough
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career. View quote
Dallas Roberts
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day. (Don Kardong)
Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together. View quote
Evan Davis
At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off? View quote
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure. View quote
Jo Beverley
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships. View quote
Jonathan Cain