Ticking Quotes

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

Future, Past, Old

There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
Scott Adams

Situation, Meet, Close

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.
Jo Brand

Life, Women, Great

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

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
Eric Liu

Freedom, Down, Cannot

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
Robert Lanza

Next, Turn, Longer

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

Busy, Brain, Keep

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

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.
Christine Pelosi

Time, Why, American

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg Buchner

Life, Time, Death

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.
James Lafferty

Sleep, Trying, Insane

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

Men, Definitely, Clock

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

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

Experience, Through, Heard

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.
Marcia Cross

Love, Age, Women

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.
Denise Van Outen

Brain, Big, Keep

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

Medical, Understand, After

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer

Life, Time, Bad

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
Libby Trickett

Time, Same, Swimming

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.
Max Winkler

Happy, Yourself, Find

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
JoBeth Williams

Play, Wanted, Her

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