Tick Quotes

“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).”
― Kamand Kojouri

“A clock that is moving through space at a very fast speed does not tick at the same rate as a slow-moving watch gently attached to your wrist as you stroll on a tropical beach. The idea of a universal time - a godlike clock that could somehow sit outside our universe and measure, in one go, the movement of everything in it, how its evolution unfolds, how old it is and all that - does not exist.”
― Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

“Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“Tick. Tick. Tick.
This is the sound of your life running out.”
― Anonymous

“MURRY:[Father] Time is kind of a big deal and I'd rather not tick him off.
MOLLY: Heh. Tick.”
― Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve

“Somos porque nos repetimos, nuestros hábitos, nuestro carácter es lo que de nosotros se reitera.”
― Jazmina Barrera Velázquez, Cuerpo extraño

“Within 30 days of a new person joining my team, we take at least an hour to go through a document that contains the questions we look at here in a moment, helping me understand what makes them tick and setting expectations about their growth path over the next year.”
― Camille Fournier, 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

“i wish i could go back
and tell my younger self to smile with her teeth
it wasn't your fault
the tick chose you; the doctor chose the drugs
and even if it were, you have every right
to bare your yellowed fangs and tell the world to move.”
― M.J. Anthony, Tending Clay; Unearthing Stars