Top 263 Tick Quotes & Sayings

I'm so interested in people's journeys and what makes them tick, the movers and shakers.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if 'The Tick' was a graphic novel!

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick.

It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

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

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

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

To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.

What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.

My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

Doing comedy around the world is a way of finding out how people tick.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

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

We all have those friends that tick to their drum, and you don't want them to tick to anybody else's drum.

And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

I’m the bomb like tick tick.

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

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

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

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

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

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.

Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. “Tick, tock.” “Tick, tock,” I agree softly. “It’s time for bed. Tick, tock. Go to sleep.

If you see a tick on your body, be sure to remove it immediately. Use tweezers to pull the tick's body away from your skin, being careful not to crush the tick's body.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

I'm a culture guy: That's who I am and what makes me tick.

There are certain people you listen to who might be a tick better than someone else.

Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

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.

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.

I've spent a lot of time studying corporations and what makes them tick.

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

I love getting insight into what makes actors tick.

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick.

I feel like a tick on a dog.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.