Top 1200 Ticking Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

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

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

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

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. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

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

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

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.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

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.

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

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

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

When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

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

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

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

I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?

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

I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do, and I wanted to do those things in the best possible way that I could and probably the biggest way I possibly could.

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

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

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

Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.

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

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

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

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

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

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

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

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.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.

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

I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.

Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

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

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.

When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.

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

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

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

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

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

The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

It's very good for one's brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.

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

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.