Ticks Quotations

One of the things that bothers me most, ... is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have guts.' I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.

No one had ever labeled the components to follow them over time, to see one clock as it ticks away in a single cell. All the biochemistry and molecular biology that had been done on this had been piecing together information from dead flies.

No one can predict what might, or might not, happen once the clock ticks past midnight this New Year's Eve. The only certainty is that this January 1 deadline cannot be extended.

I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower, stocks are good but you only have to have Iran start to threaten the loss of barrels. I expect the Iranians to take this to the wire.

I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower. Stocks are good, but you only have to have Iran start to threaten the loss of barrels. I expect the Iranians to take this to the wire.

I can't emphasize enough how easily overlooked these ticks are.

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

He has been there and we know he handles it. You look at the statistics, he is right amongst it. Put it this way, there's a lot of ticks next to him.

My car has been a little tight the last few races. I'm very encouraged with third. A couple of ticks and we'll be right there.

Ticks become active as soon as the weather begins to warm up.

First and foremost, Colin is a safe pair of hands. He's a very sound individual who understands golf, having lived and worked in it all his life. He was good enough to make it to Walker Cup level as a player, and he captained Scotland to European Championship success. In other words, he ticks all the boxes. What more could you want?

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

Cycle after cycle, like the ticks of a clock, we get closer and closer to the point where one of these mega-thrust earthquakes are going to occur like happened in Indonesia last year. You can almost look at these slip events as ticks of that clock.

They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.

The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks

As much as it ticks me off, I don't want to forget all the good things they did because we threw a lot of plays at them and they handled a great majority of them.

It still ticks me off. I've never seen a fake punt in the Senior Bowl. It blew my mind. We were going to have a hell of a game and win. They faked a punt and they blocked a field goal, and you're not supposed to do either of them.

It's the stop-loss that ticks me off, ... He kept his word, and the government doesn't have to keep its.

Everybody's like: 'Indianapolis, they're Super Bowl-bound, they're the best team out there.' That really gets us geeked up. You say that around this defense and that just ticks us off and gives us a little more motivation during the week.

I hear a lot of what is said about me on those shows, and it really ticks me off. Guys who call and blast me will have an effect on whether I want to come back here next season. My kids hear this stuff and it makes me mad.

You could go into the Boston rink and guys would get assists sitting on the bench. They'd throw them out like candy. ... Now it's more precise. Now they video it and replay it. I think the players too say, 'I didn't touch that' or 'It was his.' Because a lot of times you can't tell if it ticks a stick or just goes by.

Ahtisaari ticks two of this year's most obvious boxes.

The clock ticks and time runs out. Our founding fathers wanted to make it hard to pass legislation and it is hard. It's hard to pass legislation for a reason.

The claims numbers don't do anything to support the Treasury market, nor are they ground breaking either. The 10-year's price is a couple of ticks lower since the report.