I just can't work out what makes Tom tick.

I like to take things apart to see what makes them tick.

And then by analyzing the various quirks and complexities of language, I think we can get a window onto what makes us tick.

But Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville, the two great social analysts of the nineteenth century, knew better what makes people tick, and what makes societies change.

His weapon? Art. Global Voices Online sat down with this young Lebanese graffiti artist to see what makes him tick.

So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes TED sters tick.

By contrast, the large numbers of young Chinese and Indians who are graduating from the best Western universities (mostly American) know the Western mind from the inside, and thus feel that they understand what makes us tick.

But it's also about collective engagement and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes people tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in games.

Niliacus Lacus, try to get the practice, slick a tick a bacus.

Many religions instruct us that attachment to material possessions makes us unhappy.

Content that makes us uncomfortable, is filtered out.

The data are clear about what makes us sick and kills us prematurely.

For example, white tailed deer living in northwestern Costa Rica host six species of tick.

Indeed, they are part of what makes us human.

But globalization makes the weakest among us more visible, and therefore makes the absence of social justice more unacceptable.

Let me remind the Assembly of some of the important items on our checklist and of what each of us must do to make sure that we tick them off on time.

Dan Ariely What makes us feel good about our work?

We need to redefine what makes us secure in this world.

That makes the 2012 US election the most expensive ever held.

Each question included a checklist relating to the procedure, and respondents were requested to tick applicable responses.3

And that love makes us want to be around him, even now.

It makes no difference to me whether he joins us or not.

It makes no difference to me whether he joins us or not.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

No one doubts the impact that major multinational corporations and terrorist organizations can have, for better or worse. But the role of a number of international non governmental organizations (INGOs) has been more significant than is generally recognized, and what makes the best of them tick is worth exploring.

Nehal with her sleep, makes many of us awaken. She reminds all of us the value of friendship and love.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

And that makes us stronger. The signing ceremony is therefore a message of hope.

And I just start out with a trace because I was thinking, What really makes us? you know, it's actually the past, what makes a person.

They replied , It makes no difference to us whether you preach or do not preach ,

They replied , It makes no difference to us whether you preach or do not preach ,

Sony Playstation Network done, the government of Turkey tick, Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency a breeze, the CIA falling off a log.

Finally, obesity can be the result of infection by an agent that makes us get fat.

Indeed, this might be the last trip that a US president ever makes to Latin America.

This invisible wind makes our chest heavy, yet, mysteriously propels us back on our feet again.

Great inequality makes us hungrier for goods than we would otherwise be, by constantly reminding us that we have less than the next person.

Because she makes an active contribution to the better world, just like all of us here today.

Apparently doing something virtuous like turning off the lights makes us feel entitled to act badly afterwards.

They went upstairs into the little room, where all looked just as it used to do. The old clock was going tick, tick, and the hands pointed to the time of day, but as they passed through the door into the room they perceived that they were both grown up, and become a man and woman.

Please inquire of Yahweh for us for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

It's not having experiences that make us wise, it's reflecting on the experiences that we've had that makes us wise and that helps us become whole, brings wisdom and authenticity.

After all, it is the liquidity of US Treasury bonds that makes them the world s leading reserve asset.

The new US policy toward Afghanistan makes no mention of trying to transform that country into a democracy.

The observation of the Secretary General that the security situation remains precarious makes us all feel deeply concerned.

You don't punish failure. You reward every little bit of effort a little bit of gold, a little bit of credit. You've done 20 questions tick.