#ticking

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#anything #because #been #doing #editor

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#brain #busy #i #i always #keep

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#bits #bits and pieces #black #cotton #flung

I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened. ↗

— Eric Davis

#cancer #colon #comfortable #embarrassed #feel

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years. ↗

— Eric Davis

#ball #children #circulating #despite #god

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fun #good #i #like #lot

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. ↗

— James Lipton

#blow #craft #doors #i #know

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves. ↗

— Eric Liu

#believes #bush #cannot #clarity #days

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#dealing #head #look #most #new