#ticking

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation. ↗

— Scott Adams

#anything #bullets #clock #close #deadlines

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#conservative #get #having #i #image

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

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#man #marriage #sticking #true

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

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

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#being #catch #else #good #hand

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