Christmas Quotes - Page 34

• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

  Olivia Williams

  Husband, Week, Wanted

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• Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Children, Book, Boys

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• May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

  Alastair Campbell

  Mother, Queens, Memories

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  People, Car, Nannies

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• The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

  Beth Henley

  Writing, School, Night

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

  Burt Ward

  Country, Book, United States

  "Stuph File" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

  Chris Frantz

  Two, Track, Dozen

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• For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

  Chris Pine

  Morning, Growing Up, Years

  "Chris Pine on Jack Frost, Jack Ryan, the bogeyman". Interview with Hilary Fox, www.yahoo.com. November 14, 2012.

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• It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

  Christina Perri

  Song, Writing, Creativity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

  Christina Perri

  Song, Memories, Listening

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.

  Dave Haywood

  June, Light, July

  "Lady Antebellum Record Christmas Album" by national ledger.com, September 11, 2012.

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• You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Hurt, Fall, Careers

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• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  Ian St John

  Garden, Awards, People

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• I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Mom, Rain, White

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• But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Years, Cards, Faye

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• We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.

  Victoria Osteen

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.

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• Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

  Whitley Strieber

  Holiday, Years, Childhood

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• I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

  Whitley Strieber

  Writing, Years, Grandfather

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

  Mother, Brother, Atheist

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• I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

  Andy Rooney

  Art, Feelings, Feeling Bad

  Andy Rooney (2003). “Common Nonsense”, p.38, PublicAffairs

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• South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

  Joel Hodgson

  Video, Cards, Littles

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• I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

  Johnny Galecki

  Vacation, Building, Used

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2010.

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• I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Kids, Dark, Age

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• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Summer, Beach, Horse

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• I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

  Kurtis Blow

  Rap, Records, Deals

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