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Quotes About Ticking

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
Suzanne Collins
~ Tick, tock.
Tick-tock. This is a clock.
~ Suzanne Collins
If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.
~ Neal Shusterman
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.
~ Arthur Miller
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like
~ Robin Tunney
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
~ Luke Wilson
We all live within time. It rules us.
~ Ned Vizzini
Five minutes passed, then six.
~ Nicholas Sparks
His father's oldest habit: taking words apart like old clocks to show the gears still ticking inside.
~ Celeste Ng
Ten minutes, good, past eleven.
~ Charles Dickens
I grant that Freud was one of the most ingenious men who ever lived, but I have no more use for his system than I have for Paley's watch — a metaphor for the universe, wound up in the beginning, then ticking away for billions of years.
~ Saul Bellow, The Actual, 1997
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 far greater than any theft of my goods or money.
~ James Lee Burke
ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa
~ James Thurber
Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.
~ Dan Brown
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
I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking
~ Henry Rollins
In short, without man's cumulative capacity to give symbolic form to experience, to reflect upon it and re-fashion it and project it, the physical universe would be as empty of meaning as a handless clock: its ticking would tell nothing. The mindfulness of man makes the difference.
~ Lewis Mumford
The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
~ David Levithan
The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
~ David Levithan
77 days 77 attempted murders Use your imagination, Mab sure as hell did. There was even a ticking crocodile.
~ Jim Butcher
Not time, but the clock, that's what you can block.
~ Unknown
Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment.
~ Rachel Cohn