Midnight Quotations | Page 4

A bunch of friends and I were out sandbagging, trying to save other people's houses. I came home about midnight and my parents were saying, 'Let's get out of the house,'

It's been quite a phenomenon, really. Curling was on quite late in the evening. It was about midnight or after that, in fact, by the time the game finished. We got an audience of 6.3 million that stayed up to watch the curling final. Now there are only five million people in Scotland, so clearly they weren't all Scots.

The likelihood of a strike tomorrow at midnight is greatly reduced.

The likelihood of a strike at midnight tomorrow is reduced substantially by the progress we made over the weekend.

The six of them start as soon after midnight as possible, when the last cars leave after the last flights of the day. They have to be through by 5 a.m., when cars start coming in for the early morning flights. Many nights, it takes all of five hours to get the job done.

Unless there is a substantial movement by the authority, trains and buses will come to a halt as of midnight tonight.

Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.

Fans were chanting my name. I've never been to a midnight madness where fans were doing something like that.

The visitation policy hasn't changed (in the books). There is a policy on the books that visitation Sunday night through Thursday night ends at midnight and then weekends it is 24 hours. So, it's not that the policy is not there. If there is a problem, a roommate conflict or something like that, the policy is still in place and can be enforced.

Most of our crews worked until midnight but were sent home to get some rest and a hot meal,