Jonathan Cain
Musician, Songwriter
"Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships."
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Tick
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Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"I’m the bomb like tick tick."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick."
Cat Stevens
Singer-songwriter
"So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out."
Amy Lowell
Poet
"How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!"
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"Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in."
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"Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!"
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"Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional."
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"Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay."
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"There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there."
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"You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel."
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"Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting."
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