Top 52 Countdown Quotes & Sayings

I always say the side of me I show on 'Countdown' is the side I'd show to my gran.

I had to be funny while hosting the countdown shows. That was my job.

I couldn't be more grateful to be a part of the Sunday NFL Countdown family.

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.

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.

Congratulations to 'Countdown' - it was an evening I will never forget - and a special thank you to Molly Meldrum.

So if you see me popping up on 'Cats Does Countdown,' you know Kath needs a bit of money.

I've had the 'Countdown' theme-tune as my mobile phone ringtone for years.

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.

When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.

'Final Countdown' would be a welcomed tune, even as a competitor.

Countdown came about at a time when we'd just had our first baby, and, if I'm entirely honest, it looked like an income - a salary - something I'd never had before.

I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.

I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

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.

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.

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

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.

I've been a fan of 'Countdown' for as long as I can remember, and this is a dream job.

I am really surprised that what I am wearing on 'Countdown' has got into the papers.

...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.

'Countdown' is family television.

Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.

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.

My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and then via my involvement with 'Countdown' - and now 'Catsdown,' as I call it.

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

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

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!

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'

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!

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.

I use a stylist, which wasn't something I imagined I'd ever do, because I like shopping, but because we prerecord 'Countdown,' I don't want to wear something that everyone has from the high street by the time the programme goes out.

Without 'Countdown,' I'd probably still be a data analyst in London.

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.

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.

Before 'Countdown,' I'd never even met anyone who was on TV.

In all my years in 'Countdown's' Dictionary Corner, the subject most guaranteed to rankle with our viewers is the presence of Americanisms in the dictionary.

Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it.

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.

I enjoy things that are relevant to me, like maths and science and 'Countdown,' and I don't want to offend our viewers.

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.

I have loved 'Countdown' for years. I always used to watch it when I got home from school. To be actually on the programme is a big challenge.

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.

I only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.

President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring.

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

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

White man get money - stay rich, kids get rich. Black man get money - it's the countdown till, 'When is this brother gonna go broke?' I'm not going broke.

I met Rachel Riley from 'Countdown' once.