Holiday Quotes - Page 27

• As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

  Julia Cameron

  Disruption, Tempo, Disturbing

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Vanity, Media, Arrogant

  Source: www.ft.com

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• I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking, Water, Parent

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Jobs, Believe, Mean

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• Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a permit to carry a gun was denied by the 'may issue' white power structure (Democrat) in that time and place. Let the holiday that celebrates this man’s life include some reflection on the importance of the Second Amendment.

  Massad Ayoob

  Kings, Home, Reflection

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• For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Letters, Littles, Break

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• He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Kings, Son, Law

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• New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Rip

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• In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Morning, Real, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was out in California over the holidays and I was working with some photographs I took out there just now, actually, which were all different photographs of the sunset. They're really interesting because El Niño has changed the cloud configuration, not only the sea, but also the whole makeup of the clouds, the sunset, and the different gradations of color and tonality. So it'll be interesting to work with that.

  Michelle Stuart

  Sunset, Makeup, Clouds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Berkeley Breathed

  Guy, Cards, Hallmark

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• Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

  Argus Hamilton

  Easter, Brother, Eye

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• As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install 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, Doors

  "Towards a Psychology of Education".

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• Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

  Louis Sachar

  Song, Giving, Santa

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture 'cause you’re too busy recording it; so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Causes

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.

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• Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.

  Karl Pilkington

  Lunch, Tapas, Goes On

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• In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Phones, Car, Office

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways that were unique to each of us. Her uniqueness was very much a part of the way she sang the songs, the story she wanted to tell through the songs. I didn't really have a full understanding of Billie until I left home -- until I'd lived a little, shall we say. At different seasons of my life, when I'd sing her songs or listen to her albums, I'd hear things I didn't hear before. Wherever you are in life, you'll hear different things in her songs.

  Dianne Reeves

  Song, Home, Unique

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• Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

  David Letterman

  Halloween, Men, Shopping

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• Labour day is a great American holiday that people
  celebrate by going out and buying products
  made in China

  David Letterman

  People, Buying, Going Out

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• The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Fun, Party

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• I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

  David Salle

  Art, Years, Kansas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.

  William Shatner

  Horse, School, Mountain

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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, Home, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Sadness, Tired

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