Tick Quotations

I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be, have, you know, to go through a long list of them and tick them. I'm not saying that's not important in fiction, but I think you have a bit more leeway; you can suit yourself.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house, just to understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick - not that I can certainly figure that out, because I can't.

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Very dramatic. As exciting as it can be. A wonderful day for college football. It's something we'll never forget. For an energy junkie like me, it can't get any better than that. To be challenged to the last tick of the clock is really special for me.

With this important acquisition, we now have more than 1,000 employees in the U.S. serving key global and mid-tier clients. Our message and values are hitting home across all markets and we are seeing a significant up tick in revenues and demand for our services. We are building on the double-digit revenue growth we experienced during the last three years, and have the strong base of skills and experience to fuel our global expansion.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

When we saw a down tick in the economy, pet businesses continued to do OK, ... People were very elastic when it came to spending for their pets.

Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

If I was Bridget Jones and had a tick-list of things to look for in the perfect man, he would tick all the boxes

I expect that in January we'll tick up a little bit.

I expected our index to tick lower in March, as the effects from the Super Bowl and mild winter weather faded. Looking ahead, our index probably will settle into a lower range, as the local economy struggles to overcome restructuring in the auto sector, higher interest rates, and elevated gasoline prices.

If the Europeans do buy, it won't be now. A lot of the time they prefer to wait until the coast is clear instead of bottom tick the market.

I always check myself for ticks. As for Lyme disease, a tick has to be on your skin 24 hours before you are at risk, but you'll never see that in the headlines, ... Also as a general rule, we don't touch any wildlife unless we're absolutely sure what it is.

Knowing what makes these cells tick may help by furthering our knowledge of the biology of the tumor.

Our primary focus is to get the social club up and running and we're hoping by the end of March we will get the final tick from all the appropriate government departments.

Renee has been a model of consistency for so long. She is our quarterback and gets us going. She makes things tick and holds down the center of the field.

My whole life is about sound. It's what makes me tick as a human being.

I thought Michael was brilliant. He basically made us tick and that allows me to do pretty much whatever I want, to bomb on as much as I want and try to create things further up the pitch.

I'm still positive on the market but the oil price is starting to tick higher and I'd like to get us through these earnings figures. We're actually entering the most difficult part of the year.

we'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.

We've known for years that there are some easy things on paper. But it's politically hard to limit the budgetary footprint of the federal government. Any item you try and cut, you're going to tick off an 800-pound gorilla that fights with a sledgehammer.

We'll put a guy in there who's a veteran player, and he's got some emotion too, now, on Tick (Burns). Everybody forgets that. Old Tick will do fine. He can get after it, now.

When you're running the ball so successfully and getting a lot of five-, eight-, 12-yard gains, after a while that time starts to tick away. If we could do that every game, that would be ideal.

The default rate will tick up, but we don't see a systemic increase.

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

We have become a society that trades frequently. Investors often act on every tick in the market without good reason. And that has a major downside.

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

To be honest, I couldn't care less. If I didn't tick them off, I'd be scratching my head about that, about why they weren't giving me any respect.

Essentially the story is we have got moderate growth through the first quarter. We may tick up in the second quarter and we may tick down in the third quarter. Growth is going to be a little slower second half of the year.

There should be good support around 120.10. That would be on intraday, a good area to buy at looking for a 20 to 30 tick rally this afternoon to get us back up nearer to unchanged levels.

These readings augur well in the very near term for supportive bond price action. We, however, still look for core inflation to tick up modestly and for overall labor market conditions to improve gradually.

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

The tick up in oil prices hurts, but history has shown that interest rates have a much bigger impact on the stock market than oil. And looking at the ISM services number, you're seeing the kind of gradual, lazy improvement in the economy that's not going to really get rates going.

They're tough. The best solution is having outdoor cats; they wipe out the tick population.

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

It's not over until the final tick of the clock. Hopefully, the basketball gods will bless us.

The Bank of England still seem to regard the labor market as broadly stable and I think this is right. For the whole of 2005 we have only seen the unemployment rate tick up a couple of points.

It's been tough for him but I think what makes him tick is that he truly loves life and gets a kick out of getting other people to laugh, ... That's what makes him energetic. He's good to be around. It's been a tremendous experience for both of us.

No matter what he does, he's going to tick somebody off. It's completely a no-win situation.

It's really the artist who needs to find their language to communicate. Learn about how people tick -- it's always a new challenge.

Every week I put him on the best offensive player. Tonight we used a different strategy and put him on the ball handler to disrupt it. He makes us tick defensively with his ball pressure.

The last couple of races, we haven't finished like we've wanted to, ... But we had a great run at Michigan and a strong run at Fontana. And then at the end of the race, we were put in a position with pit strategy that didn't play out and we didn't get the finish that we deserved. We've got the speed, but we're just a tick off.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.

I'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to this. The process leading up to (the draft) is so exciting to me. Even though I coached a long time and coached in some big college games, I still get that little tick in my stomach when they start you on the clock. It's extremely exciting to me.

I'm interested in what makes ordinary people, like yourself, tick the way you do. And the way I tick. And the way somebody else ticks.

If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body for at least twenty-four hours. Even then, two weeks worth of commonly prescribed antibiotics will kill the bacterium.

In the fourth quarter, we'll see a slight downturn but in the first part of (2006), we'll see things tick back up again.

In the fourth quarter, we'll see a slight downturn, but in the first part of (2006), we'll see things tick back up again. The panelists said new orders are looking good over the next six months. They're cautiously optimistic.

In order to know what best to do from a legal standpoint, we need to understand the mechanisms of fraud and criminality that are at work. What makes these folks tick and how can they get away with this in the current scheme of things.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.

When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

The market will be looking for a flat unemployment number and a small tick up in jobs, and if the market doesn't get that, it's gonna feel it.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

I’m the bomb like – tickk. tick.

What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.