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Letter "T" » The Tick
«There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face»
«The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.»
«Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.»
«Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.»
Author: Mary Parrish
| About:
Love,
Time
| Keywords:
clock, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks, vanquish, vanquishes
«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. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
| About:
Clocks
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, chronology, clock, Dead Man, decades, dry, dry run, dry season, internal, motions, outer, rate, run dry, run on, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks, timekeeper
«The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks»
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
doors, opens, possibilities, Say Anything, suits, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks, walk off
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Luck,
Men and Women,
Wives
| Keywords:
Best A, cope, cope with, occasional, sooner, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks
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