The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.
I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.
You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.
The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.
The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.
Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.
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.
There is a drop of blood in the snow before me. . . . The coyote. . . is in estrus. . . . spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.
This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.
When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
This is your life and the clock is ticking.
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
Some people who see cooking as a job. They got into cooking at some stage and they're sort of ticking along trying to get the money together to buy the car to impress the girlfriend and you know they're doing their job, but some of these people one day, all of a sudden it becomes wonderfully exciting to them. They find this love of what they're doing and they're away.
