Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Carrie Fisher

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Berkeley Breathed

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...

Ashley Tisdale

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

David Elias

We could have a terrible Christmas, and it could be another six months before things improve,

Ramel Bradley

We just didn't show any pride in the first half. I think it was us not being back in game situations yet (after Christmas break).

Patty Loveless

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Alice Smith

If it's out there, it's probably a heap of rust that would disintegrate if you tried to move it.

Li Zhaoxing

This should have been thrown into the trash heap of history a long time ago.

John Dryden

To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.

Mike Wilton

It seemed like whoever ascended to the top of the heap would quickly give it away. Nobody could settle into that position last year.

Edward Meir

The Iranian situation remains on top of the heap in terms of market concerns.

David Boaz

The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.

Ayn Rand

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

Harry Shearer

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

George Herbert

All are not merry that dance lightly.

Nat King Cole

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

Norm MacDonald

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

Rick Riordan

Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!

Megan McCafferty

She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia.

P. C. Cast

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

Thomas S. Monson

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Ron Zarrella

We could even wind up No. 2 in July.

William Shakespeare

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

William Shakespeare

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

E. F. Schumacher

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

E. F. Schumacher

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Dogen

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains