Holiday Quotes - Page 8

• 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, Thinking

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• The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a holiday, won't it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Yeah, Horcruxes, Said

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• 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

  Passion, Beer, Night

  Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”

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• Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Blessing, Dinner, Clergymen

  "Blue Christmas". Book by Mary Kay Andrews, 2006.

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• They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Mind, Skittles

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Block, Apollo

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• Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

  Iris Murdoch

  World, Frailty, Retiring

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.77, Penguin

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• It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

  Daniel Handler

  True Friend, Grateful, Thinking

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• She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he’d put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Husband, Struggle, Glasses

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• I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

  Holly Black

  Girlfriend, Winter, Impossible

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, People

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• Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Summer, School, Guitar

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Air, Occupation

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

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• If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Weekend, Wind

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• Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of Christmas, when too often we celebrate the holiday rather than the deep significance of the birth and resurrection of the Lord. They must be unhappy indeed who ignore the godship of Christ, the sonship of the Master.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Color, Unhappy, Notable

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• 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, Gay

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• The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Storm, Events

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

  Lauren Oliver

  School, Knowing, Cafeteria

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Beach, Ideas

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Fun, Kids, Littles

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.70, Macmillan

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

  Nora Roberts

  Home, Cities, Mad

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• Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Church, Sacred, Campaigns

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.570, Dell

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• Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Night, Two, London

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