Tock Quotes

• Tick tock, this is a clock.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching Fire, Tick, Clock

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.

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• An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

  Ogden Nash

  Learning, Men, Wife

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• When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

  Kesha

  Party, Tick, Clock

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• You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

  Robert Breault

  Change, Thinking, Tick

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• In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.

  Julian Assange

  Isis, Migrants, Tick

  Fuente: www.zerohedge.com

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• Before you know it, you're half-way done with your idea and you've accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Real, Ideas, Done

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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.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Spy, Stories, Tick

  Entrevista con Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. 13 de marzo de 2017.

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• It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Teeth, Kind

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.123, Random House

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• I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

  Jim Harrison

  Stars, Effort, Together

  Jim Harrison (2008). “Julip: A Novel”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ¿Cómo se puede ver algo que no existe?", bostezó el Humbug, que aún no se había despertado del todo. "A veces, es mucho más sencillo que ver cosas que están", dijo. "Por ejemplo, si algo está ahí, sólo puedes verlo con los ojos abiertos, pero si no está ahí, puedes verlo igual de bien con los ojos cerrados. Por eso las cosas imaginarias suelen ser más fáciles de ver que las reales". "Entonces, ¿dónde está la Realidad?", ladró Tock. "Aquí mismo", gritó Alec, agitando los brazos.

  Norton Juster

  Real, Ojo, Brazos

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• I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.

  Ben Hecht

  Sleep, Cities, Jail

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• Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

  Stuart Wilde

  Educational, Knowledge, Ideas

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• La alegría de vivir de esos hombres y mujeres fuera de lo común que se ganan la vida con gran celo se debe en buena parte a la astucia y pertinacia con que consiguen pasar por alto la miseria de los demás. Se les puede ver cómo la vida golpea las caras de sus amigos y conocidos, aunque ellos mismos parecen burlar los densos retrasos de las costumbres sociales, el tedioso tic-tac de la ofuscación burocrática, aceptando la pérdida y la edad y el cambio y la decepción sin sufrir pinchazos en el revestimiento de su estómago.

  Edward Hoagland

  Vida, Decepción, Pérdida

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• Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Gale, Tick

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• So, when kiss Spring comes
  we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
  lips because tic clocks tock don't make
  a toctic difference
  to kisskiss you and to
  kiss me.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Kissing, Differences

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• There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

  Oliver Sacks

  Sound, Example, Digital

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• Tic, tac", susurra Wiress. La guío hacia mí y hago que se tumbe, acariciándole el brazo para tranquilizarla. Se queda dormida, removiéndose inquieta, suspirando de vez en cuando. "Tic, tac". "Tic, tac", le digo en voz baja. "Es hora de irse a la cama. Tic, tac. A dormir.

  Suzanne Collins

  Acostarse, Dormir, Cama

  Suzanne Collins (2013). "The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy", p.477, Scholastic UK.

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• I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

  Norton Juster

  Dog, Confusing, Scratches

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

  Norton Juster

  Moving, Cabinets, Dukes

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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