#ticking

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

— Nicholas Hoult

#brain #busy #i #i always #keep

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

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#does #feathers #make #sticking #up

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

#dried #fishermen #fishes #had #himself

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out. ↗

— Lou Gerstner

#his #moves #neck #only #out

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court. ↗

— Brad Gilbert

#did #good #good job #i #job

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

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. ↗

— James Lafferty

#completely #drives #fan #go #i

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#describe #get #i #i think #into

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. ↗

— George Gaylord Simpson

#here #i #know #put #reason