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Cycle after cycle, like the ticks of a clock, we get closer and closer to the point where one of these mega-thrust earthquakes are going to occur like happened in Indonesia last year. You can almost look at these slip events as ticks of that clock.

Bill Steele

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

Larry Hardiman

It just ticks me off. I never in a million years thought it would happen to me.

Dean Deford

I can't emphasize enough how easily overlooked these ticks are.

Bob Lane

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

I hear a lot of what is said about me on those shows, and it really ticks me off. Guys who call and blast me will have an effect on whether I want to come back here next season.

Bob Wickman

You typically see a rebound in the labor force when the economy starts to recover. But because businesses are operating so much more efficiently, there's a limit to the number of jobs available. Unemployment could still go up a few ticks.

Maury Harris

They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.

Kevin Appier

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.

Mike Peterson

I like to think I speak for a lot of the players. But a lot of the players don't ever support me, which [ticks] me off.

Scotty Bowman

It (ticks) some of us off.

Robert Moffat

Ticks become active as soon as the weather begins to warm up.

James Howell

Ahtisaari ticks two of this year's most obvious boxes.

Gerard Daffy

Graham is as Southern as black-eyed peas, scuppernong wine, she-crab soup, Crimson Tide tailgating and a dog with ticks. She is so relentlessly Southern she makes me feel that I was born in Minnesota!

Pat Conroy

They are looking for somebody who has international experience but also they are very keen on the technical development side, which obviously he has done very successfully with the FAI. So he ticks a lot of their boxes.

Fintan Drury

You know it's dry when your fish have ticks.

Billy Higginbotham

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.

James Morgan

It's the stop-loss that ticks me off, ... He kept his word, and the government doesn't have to keep its.

Amy Campbell

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.

Charlie Jones

You could go into the Boston rink and guys would get assists sitting on the bench. They'd throw them out like candy. ... Now it's more precise. Now they video it and replay it. I think the players too say, 'I didn't touch that' or 'It was his.' Because a lot of times you can't tell if it ticks a stick or just goes by.

Terry Crisp

I'd be surprised if oil ticks much lower. Stocks are good, but you only have to have Iran start to threaten the loss of barrels. I expect the Iranians to take this to the wire.

David Thurtell

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

Lon Kightlinger