Wrapping Paper Quotes:

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

- Henry Rollins

topic: War, Tree, Wrapping Paper, Dead Trees, Emerging

I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Jesus, Funny Christmas, Shopping, Wrapping Paper, Ahead Of Time

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

- Nicolas Bouvier

topic: Believe, Sight, People, Wrapping, Wrapping Paper

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

- Augusten Burroughs

source: Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Christmas, Couple, Cancer, Leftovers, Day After Christmas

And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be.

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Thinking, Light, Cities, Wrapping Paper

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

- David Levithan

topic: Done, Paper, Kind, Wrapping, Wrapping Paper

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

- Matthew Gray Gubler

topic: Creating, World, Paper, Wrapping Paper

From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-year-old son's incarceration as 'a short break before college?' A woman. Who remembered to include batteries at the bottom of each stocking? A woman. And who gets credit for pulling it all off? Santa.That's right. A man.

- Rachel Held Evans

topic: Healing, Son, Dark, Stockings, Ovens

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Writing, Paper, Notes, Wrapping, Wrapping Paper