Ticks Quotes

One of the things that bothers me most, ... is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, `That fighter doesn`t have guts.` I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don`t care if you`re a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

I don`t want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

He has been there and we know he handles it. You look at the statistics, he is right amongst it. Put it this way, there`s a lot of ticks next to him.

That really (ticks) me off. We meet with all the cab companies and work on the situation, but there are always going to be rebels that we have no control over.

The word `politics` is derived from the word `poly`, meaning `many`, and the word `ticks`, meaning `blood sucking parasites`.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they`re like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

Our industry, I think, is in pretty good shape. There`s a big requirement on a global basis to move to the smaller line widths for the next round of chip sets, ... ?But clearly we are seeing up-ticks in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Everybody`s like: `Indianapolis, they`re Super Bowl-bound, they`re the best team out there.` That really gets us geeked up. You say that around this defense and that just ticks us off and gives us a little more motivation during the week.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.