Tickled Quotations

I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn't have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.

Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, the two principal theatres of the Church of England, had competed to stage Olivier's positively final appearance. Richard thought his father would have been tickled pink.

We're honored and tickled about playing a 9-8 game in the NCAA Tournament. It's quite historic for us as a program and we're just real happy. We've had a great year and we're looking forward to the tournament.

Three times in the red zone and we kept them out. That was an outstanding effort by them. I'm tickled to death. We said put the fire out; they put the fire out.

We're 4-0 and tickled to be there. We've been getting it done with our defense. We haven't been hitting like we'd like to, but our pitching and fielding have been good. When our hitting comes around, we're going to be tough to be beat. We've been winning on our defense so far.

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Mississippi was loaded this year. We're tickled to death.

Obviously we're tickled to death they're going to stay.

If they had come in eighth we would have been tickled to death. They have the talent. They were the most talented pair team in the competition, it's just that with them being young and inexperienced, you never know what's going to happen under stress. And with young teams, the judges tend to not give out good marks. But they skated brilliantly. They were sort of the talk of the competition.

Chris is everything you want in a receiver. He has speed and he has size. We were just tickled when he decided to come up for a visit and getting him at the last minute was just a huge thing for our program.

Getting nothing is not the end of the world. I've gotten my share. So I'm tickled pink just to be here.

He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number to contact someone in case of an emergency.

I already miss him. At 42, you don't get the opportunity to be tickled a lot.

Josh had a good day. He always will have a good day. I'm pleased that he placed in the 100. He's a fast, big kid. He's in that because we don't have a fast 100-meter person to put in there. I'm tickled pink for him to score points in the 100. He scored in every event. The relay, he won the discus and shot put, and took third in the 100. He's putting points in the till for us to help us out. That's pretty cool.

It has been a long time coming. I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

It has been a long time coming, ... I've been close a lot over that stretch of time, and I had that car accident in '98 and was sidelined for a few years. To come all the way back and be a champion again, I'm just tickled to death.

I was tickled with the way we played after a week off. All the way around.

I was tickled to death that the kids didn't quit and they found a way to win. That's what it takes to be successful.

We've got something for just about everyone. I think our horsemen and our fans are going to be tickled with what we have to offer.

We're very tickled about this whole Players Am deal -- these are all guys making names for themselves. It's so great for us, because we're getting to know all those guys. Without question, it's one of the biggest assets that the foundation has right now.

tickled to have my client as my landlord.

We shot the ball real well and played great defense (early), and that set the tempo for the rest of the game. I tickled to death to be in the state tournament, but our work's not finished.

We came here and won our first game ever at the state tournament. We're just tickled to death to have made it this far and with the way we played.

We were really tickled with our young guys coming in there and competing the way that they did. We didn't run a bunch that won indoor state, so that's good when they compete like that.

We're tickled to death, of course, to come here and play a great team like the Sun and get away with a win.

We're tickled that we have him here, but it's quite short-lived. It's very different because we have Shane but we don't have Michael. You try to be happy for everyone around you because it's Christmas and you're opening presents, but you're angry because Michael is not here. Or anywhere.

We're tickled pink with how this planter turned out. I don't know what I'd do to make it any better.

We had a great first round. We only lost a couple matches and the kids that lost fought hard. I think we've got them tuned up and ready to go. We're plum tickled by the way we got started.

We were tickled to death to do as well as we did. We did better than our expectations.

You get so tickled when you find something you really want.

Ed Harris and I first worked together in New York on Sam Shepard's play, Simpatico. Harris was never boring, which made working with him a blast. I never knew when he'd lunge across the stage and say his lines an inch from my nose, or get tickled and go upstage with his back to the audience so they couldn't see him laughing.

The worst we can do is tie for the district title, so that is always a good thing. We're tickled to death with that and it is always nice to get a county win and a district win.

There will never be anyone like Frank. We hit it off right away. I must have somehow tickled his sense of humor.

It was wonderful. We've been looking for a break-through round and all of the girls played pretty well. I'm tickled with the performance today.

(Rosetta) started the same year at the Tribune as I did coaching in 1964. ... Rosetta is the one that called me. He said, 'Ted, you will never guess what.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Finally, way, way, way overdue, you've been inducted into the Hall of Honor, and I get to escort you.' He was as tickled as I was.

After a fairly extensive search, I'm tickled to land Johnny on the staff. He's got major league experience as a player and experience as a coach. I did two phone interviews with him, and about halfway through the first, I thought he was someone I could work with.

Anyone who is for smoke-free Howard County should be tickled to death with the four-year (phase-out).

This all happened so fast, I was trying to keep my emotions in check. It really kind of stays on. I'm just tickled that the guys played well. The ingredients for winning a ball game are pitching, defense and key base hits. And we got them all.

Thirteen of the 14 past graduates came back for graduation this year to accept their scholarship certificate. And as they came up to accept their certificate, I told the crowd where they were at in their studies, what their grade point was and what their college goals were. I'm tickled about these past graduates who come back.

They never quit. With the weather being the way it's been ... I'm tickled with the way we've played in the two games we've gotten out there.

The more Randy does with his property, the more he stabilizes the area. We'd be tickled to death if he would expand his family center even further. He has talked about some day putting in miniature golf. His influence on the neighborhood has been nothing but positive.

It's just devastation. I'm tickled nobody was hurt.

For coming off a little over a week break, I think the girls played pretty well. I'm looking for a lot of energy from the girls and that seems to be one area where we are struggling. Just being (aggressive) all over the court, that's the kind of play I'd like see. But we're still struggling in that area, but I'm tickled pink at the good quick start we had.

Doing a movie like 'Memoirs' was good in the sense that it tickled me into thinking, 'Well, maybe I have to be a little more feminine.' But after two hours of that, I said, 'Fine, OK, I did that,'

It's something special to have 300 wins, I'm tickled to death to have it,

Everybody is not tickled about it. My office has had many calls.

That grocery store, that was something. You would be just tickled to go in there and pick out any candy you could want.

It's certainly something that I've wanted for a long time. I'm tickled to death. We're ready to move forward.

Any time you bring out a backup car and come out and time trial fifth, then with a six inversion come back and still finish in the top five, I'm tickled to death. I didn't feel like we were very good at all but we were good enough. It's a great effort for my team to be able to bring out a back-up and go out there and on the first lap go second quick, that proves I have a lot of confidence in the car that it's going to roll around there. They build a lot of good cars. That was a great car we crashed. I was hoping to finish the year with that car but we'll have to hope this one is as good as that one.

Small business couldn't be more tickled with this bill.

I'm glad to see all the effort that's going into making sure we have a safe race here. I'm really tickled to see the paving job is so smooth. There is grip everywhere. There is grip all the way to the top of the race track and that's going to be the key to making sure we open up a second groove and there is good side-by-side racing.

I'm tickled with the field as it came up with the absence of the Fair Grounds this year.

I'm tickled to get a win. It's been awhile.

I'm tickled to death to win and beat a first-class team, that makes the fact that we were able to beat them even sweeter. Now we have a chance to achieve something that's never been done in franchise history.

I'm tickled to death that we are able to make a living off of horses.

I'm tickled to death. I think overall, it's still going to be the best fair we've had.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.

I know I alluded to it with my players at one time or another, ... I said, with everything we went through, if it was May or June, you'd have given your right arm to be in the position we are right now. Yeah, we're not in first place, but where we were then, and where we were going, if you knew the last 20 games of the season you're fighting not only for a wild card but for a pennant, you'd be tickled to death.

If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.

He brings a lot of the whole package because he can shoot a little bit from the outside. He puts pressure on the defense because he can put it on the floor and go to the inside. We're tickled to death he's here.

A groundbreaking is the beginning of jobs and economic development. . . . We are so tickled you are here.

You win some and you lose some, but we've been winning a few lately. We're real tickled with this one in particular. We were one of three companies out of 30-some that got this.