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Quotes About Countdown

December 31, 1999—not so for December 31, 2000. Everybody celebrated the turn of the millennium on the wrong date.
~ Charles Seife
December 31, 1999, is the evening when the great odometer in the sky clicks ahead.
~ Charles Seife
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
by Saturday,
~ Carola Dunn
speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.
~ Jacob Braude
L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways." "It's
~ Neal Stephenson
And this is—" "L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways.
~ Neal Stephenson
I promised myself I'd wait until you turned twenty-one and that's in a few more weeks. I already know that's too damned far away.
~ Christine Feehan
The hourglass runs low...
~ Christopher Pike
I've been looking forward to this for weeks. You don't even know. It's like, gross hunter, gross hunter, gross hunter, puppet show!
~ Laini Taylor
Uren, dagen, maanden, jaren, zei hij bij zichzelf. Dit is de avond. Dit is de nacht. Het is oudejaarsavond. Over ruim acht en twintig minuten is het middernacht. Ik heb nog acht en twintig minuten. Ik moet mijn gedachten verzamelen. Ik moet klaar zijn met denken, als het twaalf uur is.
~ Gerard Reve
Dang that's crazy in exactly 136 school days we will be graduated.
~ The Blonde Jon
I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.
~ Casey Kasem
Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are two times of year: October and waiting for October.
~ Internet meme
Only one shopping day left 'til tomorrow.
~ Author Unknown
Five minutes," I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?
~ James Patterson
When I got my copy, I flipped all the way to the back of the book. There were sixteen sections and twenty-six pages total. In other words, we were going to be lucky to get out of this assembly by Christmas.
~ James Patterson
Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!
~ Jorma Taccone
Remember Advent calendars?" "Can't place it." "That means you weren't Catholic," said Serge. "We'd get these cool cardboard calendars that marked off the days to Christmas, and each day you'd open a little perforated window and get a piece of chocolate. There was a lot of bribery in the Catholic Church.
~ Tim Dorsey
Wednesday — I can almost see the weekend from here!
~ Internet meme
Thursday is Friday Eve!
~ Internet meme
When will it begin, anyway?" Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand. "Probably sooner than you're ready for." "When's that?" "Well." Sirus sighed, as if doing the math in his head."It'll take us about three minutes to gather this stuff and get to the cabin, and another two or three for Abraham to realize you're here. So I'd say you have about seven more minutes of freedom left.
~ Heather Brewer
To-morrow fortnight.
~ Jane Austen