Holiday famous quotes

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Holiday #Pork #Way

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#War #Holiday #Wish

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Holiday #Long #Celebrate Life

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Holiday #Relaxation #Celebrate

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
-- Al Sharpton

#Holiday #Black #Goes On

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
-- Alain de Botton

#Jobs #Book #Holiday

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
-- Alan Bradley

#Holiday #Thinking #Special

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
-- Alan King

#Holiday #Summary

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.
-- Alan Sillitoe

#Holiday #Passion #Beer

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....
-- Aldous Huxley

#Holiday #Reality #People

[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Kings #Holiday #Technology

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Disappointment #Holiday

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
-- Alex Garland

#Holiday #Tourists #Traveller

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.
-- Alex Garland

#Mistake #Writing #Holiday

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
-- Alexander Smith

#Christmas #Holiday #Together

Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.
-- Alexandra Stan

#Holiday #Thinking #Yellow

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
-- Alice Cooper

#Morning #School #Holiday

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!
-- Alicia Silverstone

#Thanksgiving #Holiday #Animal

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
-- Amy Adams

#Holiday #Simple #Simple Things

When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.
-- Amy Childs

#Beach #Holiday #Looks

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
-- Amy Sedaris

#Holiday #Turkeys #Fake

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons — for money, or for fame. I hope I won't ever do that. I don't feel at home in L.A., I feel like I'm on holiday. It's nice to dip your feet in occasionally, but I think it's probably quite unhealthy to spend too much time there at once.
-- Andrew Garfield

#Nice #Home #Holiday

Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
-- Anne Fine

#Drinking #Holiday #Kitchen

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Strong #Holiday #Winter

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.
-- Anthony Head

#Couple #Holiday #California

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Recovery #Holiday #People

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#New Year #Morning #Holiday

When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.
-- Archibald Geikie

#Notebook #Holiday #Autumn

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.
-- Arin Paul

#Believe #Holiday #Years

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Husband #Holiday #Needs

The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.
-- Auberon Waugh

#Holiday #Law #Suffering

Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll be a life where there’s more time for leisure - for enriching each other’s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon.
-- Aubrey de Grey

#Running #Holiday #Reality

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Father #Holiday #Two Sides

When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love
-- Axwell

#Holiday #Vegas #Play

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.
-- Ayn Rand

#Religious #Children #Holiday

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Educational #Holiday #World

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Holiday #Records #Listening To Music

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Holiday #Revelations #Great Confidence

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Holiday #Guy #Cards

...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays
-- Bernardino Ramazzini

#Holiday #Exercise #Science

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Holiday #Men #Important

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
-- Bette Midler

#Religious #Holiday #Self

I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.
-- Betty Who

#Home #Holiday #Thinking

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
-- Bill Condon

#Beach #New York #Holiday

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc..
-- Bill Vaughan

#Holiday #Discipline #Secret

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.
-- Billie Holiday

#Holiday #Thinking #Two

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
-- Bing Crosby

#Christmas #Blessed #Holiday

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
-- Bob Hope

#Christmas #Holiday #Simple

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
-- Bob Iger

#Holiday #Singers #Way

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Friday #Holiday #Weekend

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
-- Bobby Flay

#Sweet #Nice #Holiday

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
-- Bobby Flay

#Holiday #Men #Games

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
-- Booth Tarkington

#Christmas #Children #Holiday

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.
-- Brad Alan Lewis

#Holiday #Games #Training

I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
-- Brad Goreski

#Party #Holiday #Giving

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
-- Brian Clough

#Holiday #Shoes #Boots

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.
-- Bridgit Mendler

#Kings #Holiday #Thinking

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
-- Brooke Burke

#Girl #Dream #Holiday

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
-- Brooks Atkinson

#New Year #Memories #Holiday

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
-- Bruce Forsyth

#Holiday #Years #Long

Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back.
-- Bruce Poon Tip

#Holiday #People #Giving

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Dream #Morning #Holiday

I'm so glad you're back. We need you here. I mean...Burnett's okay, but...he's not you." Holiday arched a brow. "I hear he wasn't even himself for a while there." Miranda frowned. "He told you about the whole kangaroo thing, didn't he." "Yeah," Holiday said, and her brows tightened. "And I must say, I'm very disappointed with you, Miranda" she reached out and gripped Miranda's hand. "The next time you turn him into anything, do it when I'm here to enjoy it." -Taken at Dusk
-- C.C. Hunter

#Taken #Holiday #Mean

God won’t give you more than you can handle.’” Holiday chuckled. “And we just wish He didn’t trust us so much, right?
-- C.C. Hunter

#Holiday #Giving #Wish

My feet are always cold. I'm a vampire," he said in a teasing voice, almost as if he was trying to chase away Holiday's somberness. "And if I remember correctly, you complained about that last night." He slowed down and slipped his arm around Holiday. "Marrying you doesn't scare me a bit. It's the best thing that could ever happen to me. I'd never run out on you. I'll be the first one to the church.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Running #Holiday #Night

As Kylie buried her head on the camp leader's shoulder, she heard Burnett scold, "I thought I told you to wait at the camp." Kylie felt Holiday tense at the reprimand, and then she raised her head. "And I thought you knew I don't follow anyone's orders." "Does anyone listen to me around here?" Burnett asked, his frustration making his tone sound almost comical. "Obviously not," one of the FRU agents said, and chuckled.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Holiday #Frustration #Order

Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt breath and looked at Kylie. She nodded at him as if giving him the lead. He looked back at Holiday and, in a deep voice, said, "Kylie has something to tell you." Kylie's mouth fell open and right then she knew it was official. Men sucked at verbal communication especially where anything emotional was concerned.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Communication #Eye #Holiday

Holiday's eyes pooled with tears. And that pretty much made it a cry fest. Even Della joined in the tear party. Right then, Burnett walked in the office. His gaze went from one female to the other. Kylie could almost hear him groaning inwardly. "I...I'll be...right out there." Obviously even a hard-bodied vampire trained by the FRU wasn't capable of dealing with four crying women.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Party #Holiday #Eye

Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?
-- C.C. Hunter

#Hate #Eye #Holiday

Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's voice. "Do Lucas," Kylie said. Holiday made a funny face and raised one eyebrow.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Holiday #Boys #Eyebrows

The stupid vamp just asked me to marry him. Here, now? As if looking like I just died is how I wanted to be proposed to." Joy did a lap around Kylie's heart. "And you said?" Holiday took a sip of water. "I asked him if we couldn't just live together in sin." "And?" "He told me it wouldn't be a good example to our students. So...I agreed to marry him." She pushed a hand against her forehead. "Dear God, what am I getting myself into?
-- C.C. Hunter

#Stupid #Heart #Holiday

John rose to his feet and apologized to Holiday. Her mom seethed. Her dad tried to talk to her seething mom. Holiday tried to touch everyone. Burnett continued to glare green daggers at John, proving how hard it was for a vampire to accept an apology. Not that she blamed him. Kill him. Kill him. She cheered the vampire on. Lucas hadn't stopped scowling at Derek and Derek hadn't stopped ignoring Lucas.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Mom #Dad #Holiday

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Friday #Monday #Holiday

Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be The Happy Prince, The Gift of the Magi and Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I would like to keep that alive.
-- Cameron Mathison

#Mom #Dad #Holiday

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.
-- Carol Alt

#Fun #Tired #Holiday

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Holiday #Design

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Holiday #Kids #Effort

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Holiday #Past #People

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
-- Cathy Ladman

#Holiday #Religion #Guilt

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar

#Beach #Smart #Holiday

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.
-- Celia Rivenbark

#Fun #Holiday #Sadness

Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.
-- Celia Rivenbark

#Holiday #Two #Baking

In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days
-- Cennino Cennini

#Art #Holiday #Drawing

I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.
-- Charisma Carpenter

#Monday #Holiday #Yesterday

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
-- Charles Lamb

#New Year #Holiday #Years

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!
-- Charles Lamb

#Holiday #Dry #Woods

In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.
-- Charlie Brooker

#Brother #Silly #Holiday

To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.
-- Charlotte Mason

#Children #Book #Holiday

Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with all-white meat.
-- Chelsea Handler

#Dog #Holiday #Turkeys

My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.
-- Chloe Sevigny

#Children #Holiday #Home

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
-- Chris Brown

#Memories #Home #Holiday

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.
-- Chris Thile

#Holiday #Three #Celebrate

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
-- Christina Applegate

#Holiday #Animal #People

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.
-- Claire Holden Rothman

#War #Holiday #Generosity

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.
-- Coolio

#Holiday #Infidelity #Purses

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it
-- Craig Ferguson

#Christmas #Spiritual #Holiday

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Holiday #Thinking #People

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.
-- Craig Johnson

#Halloween #Holiday #Effort

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
-- Dan Harmon

#Holiday #Numbers #Tvs

Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small?
-- Dan Rather

#Holiday #Thinking #News