Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

Ray Stannard Baker

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Tom Lehrer

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

Robbie Fowler

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

N. T. Wright

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

Toby Lenk

Growth has been tremendous. We expect to do about 20 times what we did last Christmas this Christmas.

Malaika Arora Khan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

Busta Rhymes

Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?

Azealia Banks

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Chuck D.

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

Alicia Keys

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

Angie Martinez

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Rick Ross

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

Talib Kweli

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

Ruby Dee

See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored.

Sam Kinison

Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Noel Gallagher

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

Noah Baumbach

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

Nina Blackwood

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

Martin Mull

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Nasser Hussain

Sourav Ganguly has been an excellent captain, his record speaks for himself. I found him to be a tough competitor and every Indian should feel proud of Sourav.

Martina McBride

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

Madonna Ciccone

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking