Top 223 Ticking Quotes & Sayings

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.

Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

I think my biological clock ticking is more worrying for me than getting the right roles.

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

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.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

The link between young girls, eating disorders and osteoporosis is a ticking time-bomb.

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

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

I like time ticking the way it is.

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

China has become a ticking time bomb, facing many wars within, triggered by a number of internal ticking economic and demographic tinderboxes that threaten to bring on that which the Chinese people fear most - 'chaos' or 'luan.'

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

I know what I want, and the performance side is more important than ticking the money box.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present.

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

My mum has taught me that the clock is ticking and you have to enjoy every moment - you can not replace time.

I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.

I had neck surgery and I'm not freaking stupid. I get that my window is smaller than it was and my bump card is ticking.

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

I like to do the simple things really well, keep the ball ticking.

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

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

It is mutual love, respect and adoration that keep a marriage ticking.

Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.