Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

- David Hewson

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

- Kim Weston

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

- Kevin Rose

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

- Kathryn Bigelow

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

- Jimmie Johnson

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

- Jim Lee

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

- George Downing

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

- Graham Taylor

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

- Fred Durst

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

- Evangeline Lilly

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

- Al Yankovic

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

- Dan Hill

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

- Corey Hart

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

- Claire Danes

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

- Brett Favre

I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

- Andrew Gold

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

- Alan Lomax

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

- Anita Baker

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

- Alia Shawkat

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

- Antonio Banderas