“Dicko: There was something missing from that performance. It was the tick tick tick of your mind working. That was the first time we saw you sing without thinking about what you're doing. Now the trick is to follow along on that road. Simple melody sung beautifully - well done.”

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”

“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”

“Time can tick when there is no clock.”

“You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.”

“So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out
There’s so much left to know, and I’m on the road to find out.”

““I really did suffer a lot,” she said, “and for a lot longer than I even care to remember. I was sure I’d never find anything to take the place of ballet, and it took all my energy just to get through each day. My parents and my friends all said that time alone would heal the wound, and I guess I knew it was true, but I wished I could hibernate or something, and let time go by without having to suffer through it. But of course the clock just kept slowly ticking away. Tick, tick, tick”

“I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.”

“People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. ”

“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”