Countdown Quotes

• I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

  Donald Miller

  Matter, Clock, Mines

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2015

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• The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

  Gene Cernan

  Anchors, Two, Three

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• I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

  Carol Vorderman

  Long, Lucky, Wonderful

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• The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going.

  Emily Giffin

  New Year, Fun, Regret

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, Pages, Return

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life

  Gyles Brandreth

  Crazy, Being Crazy

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• Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

  Carol Vorderman

  Running, Children, Home

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  New Year, Home, Years

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• My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

  Julie Burchill

  Friday, Husband, Attitude

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

  Bill Gross

  Running, Real, Risk

  "Credit Supernova!" by Bill Gross, www.pimco.com. February 2013.

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• ...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a "holy war" against the West or by using the Chinese to cause global conflict. Maybe both.

  David Icke

  Real, War, Years

  David Icke (2003). “Tales from the Time Loop: The Most Comprehensive Exposé of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free”, David Icke Books

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• I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Song, Insecure, Numbers

  "I want to retain what I have, recapture what I've lost". Interview with Komal Nahta, in.rediff.com. January 13, 2000.

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• I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker.

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, Mean, Shelves

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• I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

  Carol Vorderman

  Men, Talking, Years

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