#ticking

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ticking




The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.


James Thurber


#armchair #attic #future #guess #old

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.


Robin Tunney


#comes #documentaries #feels #i #journals

You sure you don't want to go?” Grandma Mazur asked my mother. “I didn't know Moogey Bues,” my mother told her. “I've got better things to do than to go to a viewing of a perfect stranger.” “I wouldn't go either,” Grandma Mazur said, “but I'm helping Stephanie with this here manhunt. Maybe Kenny Mancuso will show up, and Stephanie will need some extra muscle. I was watching Television, and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down.” “She's your responsibility,” my mother said to me. “She sticks her fingers in anybody's eyes I'm holding you accountable.


Janet Evanovich


#grandma-mazur #humor #stephaine-s-mom #stephanie-plum #sticking-fingers-in-eyes

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.


Kendrick Lamar


#feeling #game #i #organic #putting

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.


Nate Silver


#glory #reason #sticking #think #went

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.


Donald Trump


#better #better off #experience #few #few things

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.


Andre Gide


#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.


Libby Trickett


#biological #clock #could #enjoying #i

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.


Arabella Weir


#building #developed #diet #different #eventually

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.


JoBeth Williams


#because #clock #could #felt #her