“ The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. ”
- Mary Parrish- Copy
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“ I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease… ”
- Jeff Melvoin- Copy
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“ We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living… ”
- Max Lerner- Copy
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“ Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development. ”
- Charles Garfield- Copy
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“ Among the Round Tablers at the Algonquin Hotel, Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily. ”
- John Mason Brown- Copy
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