#ticking

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'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.' ↗

— Beth Orton

#band #before #coming #context #did

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

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet. ↗

— Allison Janney

#being #could #hand #i #if i could

Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#screw #sticking-place #courage

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. ↗

— Paul Getty

#always #any #believed #binding #business

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#future #past #possibilities #ticking #time

No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off? ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#get #hack #hair #how #i

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

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