People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick? — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed. — James Frey Copy Share Image
I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action? — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight? — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick,… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do?… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day. — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in… — Buddy Hackett Copy Share Image
This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them.… — James Frey Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are.… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference,… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! — Candy Crowley Copy Share Image
Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick. — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image