Countdown Quote by Frankie Boyle Download Open image “Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?” — Frankie Boyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Countdown Doe Funny Humor Ironic Old people People Program Programming
Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live. — David Oliver Relin Copy Share Image
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.' — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it… — Sarah Hughes Copy Share Image
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I did a ski festival in Austria once. I was struck by how friendly Austrians were, before gradually realising it's more that Glaswegians are… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Scientists have just built the world's biggest supercollider, and they're doing experiments to see what makes up protons. I hope that if the experiment's… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
People who think there's no good way to die have obviously never heard the phrase 'Drug-fuelled-sex-heart-attack'. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for Obama because he's still got to fight the innate racism of Americans. I mean, did you see his first speech,… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
In a lot of farther-flung places in Scotland people are guarded at first, but as soon as they get to know you they really… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
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… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Those deep set eyes that look like they could tell stories for days, and that wavy brown hair that feels soft between my fingers.… — Elizabeth Norris Copy Share Image
Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan… — David Icke Copy Share Image
When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
“Once the horizon is narrowing and the countdown is ticking hastily, people may bring themselves to tear down the veil of inattention, losing their… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
