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He's great. We'll do very little work with him now, it's just a matter of keeping him ticking over.

Martin Brassil

It's been tough for him but I think what makes him tick is that he truly loves life and gets a kick out of getting other people to laugh, ... That's what makes him energetic. He's good to be around. It's been a tremendous experience for both of us.

Brian Gray

I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

Joss Stone

We're sitting on a ticking time bomb. This town is ready to ignite.

Larry Southard

I was thinking the clock wasn't ticking quickly enough, honestly.

Lisa Kelley

It's really the artist who needs to find their language to communicate. Learn about how people tick -- it's always a new challenge.

Jonas Kage

These data paint a pretty clear picture for our leaders, ... My message to Canadians, and to our political leaders: the clock is ticking, and it is ticking ominously.

Ruth Collins

We made it clear that time was ticking, there was a lot of progress to be done and a lot of work ahead and if there was not substantial progress quickly, major hostilities would resume.

Dan Senor

The clock is really ticking. It's tearing us up knowing that so many animals are in need and [we] can't get to every one on our own.

Wayne Pacelle

Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.

Carl Sibilski

Renee has been a model of consistency for so long. She is our quarterback and gets us going. She makes things tick and holds down the center of the field.

Rusty Brauner

It's wasteful to have a train pass just ticking away.

Rick Steves

The clock is now ticking toward gradual European Union withdrawal.

Carl Bildt

The days are ticking, and I'm not sure how much money I have. Right now, I have nothing.

Christina Allevato

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James

Unsurprisingly, politicians spout sound bites about their unwillingness to remove 'consumer protections' from the equation, but they have it all wrong, ... The only real way to 'protect' consumers is to keep them alive. We must move fast and we must move now. The clock is ticking.

Paul Offit

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Lou Erickson

We've got to move forward. The clock is ticking, for sure.

Dan Goodwin

We never do it easy. I just watched the clock tick and watched us get to the house.

Jeff Lebo

The province has created a ticking download that will cost Ontario property taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over time.

Roger Anderson

If they could get the institutions up and running properly before Blair resigns then Northern Ireland will go down as a positive -- he can tick it off as one of the big political issues he did get sorted out.

John Curtice

What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, uncertain times.

Lauren Asplen

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.

James Thurber

The No. 1 goal is to get out of the way of the library so that they can start construction. As of June 12, the clock will be ticking.

Towny Anderson

Clock's ticking -- let's get out there.

Anthony Lapaglia

Every time a fixed-expense item is paid off, reallocate that former payment against another debt. Combined with Mrs. Brown's employment as a nurse in 2002, you will be able to stop the interest clock from ticking forever.

Greg Zandlo

This guy's got bullet speed. So he can do things I can't coach. That no one can coach. He can do things that only guys with that kind of talent can. He'll cover 60 yards at times to make a play. He's intent. And that's what makes him tick. If he ever loses that, he'd be just another guy.

Larry Coyer

I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ... That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.

Firas Askari

However time may be measured at the Naval Observatory, the clock seems to tick slowly here when Congress is out of town.

Richard Corrigan

There are no signs it's a demand problem, ... It's a capacity problem, and one that's been visible for three years. It's been clear for three years. That's how long it takes to get these plants built. This has just been a ticking bomb.

Paul Leming

We felt that the clock needed to be ticking more forcefully, that Hayley needed to be in more jeopardy than she was in the early versions of the screenplay. We felt that Jeff, in early versions, was a bit too much of a victim. The audience had to have the sense that he could and would fight back.

Richard Hutton

There should be good support around 120.10. That would be on intraday, a good area to buy at looking for a 20 to 30 tick rally this afternoon to get us back up nearer to unchanged levels.

Royal Bank

Money doesn't make Dr. Rudolph tick. What makes Dr. Rudolph tick, what drives him, is unfairness in the health care system.

Frederick Thieman

[The profit was] at the bottom of forecasts, they confirmed some production delays, and I think the market just doesn't like oils at the moment, ... Generally though, things are ticking along quite nicely for them.

Peter Hitchens

The clock starts ticking as soon as the injury occurs and bleeding worsens. Secondary injuries, such as low oxygen levels and low blood pressure, will happen after an injury and those all double and triple your chance of dying.

Dr. Maurizio Miglietta

She is like the Energizing Bunny in that she just keeps ticking. She is a tough kid who played through adversity.

Greg Bennett

I expect that in January we'll tick up a little bit.

Steve Rogers

I am convinced that pit bulls are ticking time bombs. I am convinced that they are inherently dangerous animals.

Michael Bryant

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

Arthur Caplan

The clock keeps ticking. Every time this virus replicates, it makes mistakes, ... Sooner or later it will make the mistakes that will allow it to go human to human.

Robert Webster

I'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to this. The process leading up to (the draft) is so exciting to me. Even though I coached a long time and coached in some big college games, I still get that little tick in my stomach when they start you on the clock. It's extremely exciting to me.

Jim Goodman

The clock started ticking today.

Peter Fiske

No matter what he does, he's going to tick somebody off. It's completely a no-win situation.

Rick Garcia

It was a ticking bomb, a house of cards ready to fall, and finally Peter couldn't pay Paul anymore.

Tony Kavanagh

I'm still positive on the market but the oil price is starting to tick higher and I'd like to get us through these earnings figures. We're actually entering the most difficult part of the year.

Nick Skiming

It's time to start the clock ticking on the government of Sudan.

John C. Danforth

It's getting pretty intense. Every day has been ticking by. I just want to get there. The anticipation is killing me.

Miles Austin

We've come up short so many times. But it was unbelievable feeling today to see that clock tick down and he's [Seitz] got the ball in his hands and we knew it was over. It was the greatest feeling.

Jason Garey

Something needs to be done and they have gone after the best British coach in the country, someone who has got a track record of being able to make things right and sort out problems. They have to wait. They have got people in place now that are just ticking it over but they have got to make the right appointment.

Denis Betts

The problem is, ... we can't predict when it will occur. As one of my colleagues said, the influenza clock is ticking, but we don't know what time it is.

Nancy Cox

It's a special enigma of President Reagan, that people who were closest to him still would have trouble telling you what it is that makes him tick.

Marlin Fitzwater

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

Jeff Melvoin

There have been developments, we've had some positive developments in terms of statements from politicians in Iraq, from clerics in Iraq, so we take some comfort from that. But there's much more to be done. The clock is ticking, and we need to keep working to get her out.

David Cook

The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would, ... But ... where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark's keeps on ticking.

Barbara Block

We have decided just to keep him ticking over. He goes well fresh and we'll go there in good spirits.

Robert Lester

London deserves better than this. We can't believe that, with the clock ticking, there are no talks and no plans for talks.

Dan Kirkby

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of (his) years. I think I'm in the November of my years.

B. B. King

I try in sessions to let listeners into the musician's life: Where does this song come from and what makes this artist tick. So then when they listen to that artist again later, it's a more personal experience. There's a relationship there.

John Ziegler

I thought Michael was brilliant. He basically made us tick and that allows me to do pretty much whatever I want, to bomb on as much as I want and try to create things further up the pitch.

Jermaine Jenas

The Bank of England still seem to regard the labor market as broadly stable and I think this is right. For the whole of 2005 we have only seen the unemployment rate tick up a couple of points.

Nick Kounis

The clock is ticking for a significant number of children in the southeastern part of Ethiopia who are already under life-threatening conditions.

Dan Toole

Just about any lawyer in private practice who had a chance to serve in high office would. If they say no, they're kidding. I'm glad of the state experience I'm getting. I've learned a great deal. It's very broadening, this insight into how government works and how people function. What makes it, them, tick. It can only make me a better man, a better lawyer - or a better public servant.

Bill Goldberg

The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would. But what sets it apart is where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark keeps on ticking.

Barbara Block

He has to suit up to get ready for the next season. The clock is ticking. Either he shows up for training camp or doesn't.

Charles Foster

Our primary focus is to get the social club up and running and we're hoping by the end of March we will get the final tick from all the appropriate government departments.

Michael Bowers

There were no ticking time bombs in the inflation report. Although there was a substantial rise in energy prices, otherwise inflation remains very contained.

Stuart Schweitzer

In the fourth quarter, we'll see a slight downturn, but in the first part of (2006), we'll see things tick back up again. The panelists said new orders are looking good over the next six months. They're cautiously optimistic.

Daniel Burns

Limited us down to so many shootings per show and so many fistfights, but it didn't seem to affect the show. We kept on ticking; the producers wrote around this new set of rules.

The Others

Despite the major threat to human health posed by these viruses, there was very little information available on the entire genomes of bird flu viruses. Now we're in a much better position to understand what makes these viruses tick. And that could help us learn how to control the avian influenza viruses that threaten humans.

Clayton Naeve

The default rate will tick up, but we don't see a systemic increase.

Michael Roberge

The clock is ticking but we will put the right structure and the right coaching team in place to put the Wallabies in a winning position for 2007.

Gary Flowers

The clock was not ticking fast enough for us. I really believe it was destiny because they were making every one of their close in shots except for that one.

Lisa Kelley

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

James Hardway

With interest rates on federal student loans set to rise on July 1 for the second-straight year, the clock is ticking for borrowers to lock in today's interest rates -- the fourth-lowest in the history of the student loan program.

Patricia Scherschel

We've worked all week telling them the game was never over until the last tick. Cortez has been the man for us all year. When I saw it leave his hand I knew it was good. It was just a matter of did we have time or not.

Billy Mitchell

Tick, Tick ... BOOM!

Jonathan Larson

It's tick, tick, tick, when we got everything going right. You saw it tonight.

Roy Hibbert

There's time, but the clock is ticking. We are fearful of what might happen in the absence of legislation. It could leave us open to lawsuits and judicial rulings which might severely damage the Illinois wine industry.

Dave Stricklin

That is not who I am. My priorities lie elsewhere. It is not what makes me go 'tick tick tick.' I want to return to my fiction. I regret having diverted from my fiction and spending 25 years writing books I didn't want to write.

Richard Leigh

He'd have mattress ticking in his beard and in his hair.

Malcolm White

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Karl Shapiro

The problems are worst in the capital, and it is the one place we can't afford to get it wrong. The clock is ticking.

John Sawers

In the fourth quarter, we'll see a slight downturn but in the first part of (2006), we'll see things tick back up again.

Daniel Burns

I think a lot of it will be tied to housing. Gas prices are ticking back up, and they are higher than they were the same time last year.

Chris Mccarty

Typically, infection occurs only after hours of tick attachment, so people can reduce their risk by removing ticks quickly.

Lon Kightlinger

Every week I put him on the best offensive player. Tonight we used a different strategy and put him on the ball handler to disrupt it. He makes us tick defensively with his ball pressure.

Scott Dobyns

You don't think we'll walk out of there with a 17-point win, do you? We don't ever do it easy. I was just watching that clock tick and trying to get to the house.

Jeff Lebo

If the Europeans do buy, it won't be now. A lot of the time they prefer to wait until the coast is clear instead of bottom tick the market.

Mark Constant

As soon as someone abandons a property the clock starts ticking.

Jeff Bennett

My whole life is about sound. It's what makes me tick as a human being.

Evelyn Glennie

We have very few options, and the clock is ticking. It's getting very late in the game.

Elaine Ginnold

We were the first and thank God we're still ticking, ... We were the first at what we did, the first newsmagazine program. Today, the television landscape is littered with them.

Fred Bradley

This is very much a play on world trade. They're both saying they can see the world economy ticking along nicely for some time and are prepared to pay to be part of it.

Zafar Momin