Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations.

It's a blessing. It was my Christmas present.

Dan Johnson

It is particularly difficult this Christmas because we have to squeeze in an extra game.

Robbie Williams

It's a fantastic result -- Happy Christmas to everybody.

Tom Izzo

This is the greatest time of the year. For nine, 10 years, we've gotten better over Christmas.

This is usually a slow time, the lull after Christmas.

There is this psychological game. It has not been a pre-Christmas sale this year, it's been 'special offers'. Encouraging people to shop earlier helps stores with stock and planning. It means there is not so much to be drastically cut in the last week.

It's a sad day when the Radio City Christmas show doesn't go on with its live orchestra. People don't pay up to $250 to hear a tape recorder.

Gary Johnson

It's a reward for the Christmas matches. It will be nice to have a few days with the sun on our backs.

Andrew Flintoff

It's a tough tour. We had a taste of the sub-continent before Christmas and going to India now, they are a formidable side, we know it's going to be hard, but for the past few weeks we've trained hard and I'm looking forward to going.

Carlos Fuentes

It was close to being ready around Christmas break. Then we started looking for the first big invitational to throw it, but we always had to look at the team score. It was hard to fit it in at the right time.

It was Christmas, and on Christmas gentile Hungarians tend to stay home with their families. I'd say that 80 percent of the crowd was Jewish.

J. J. Johnson

It was between Christmas and New Years. The teams gathered together in Kansas City and played the tournament.

Macaulay Culkin

It was for one of his last Christmas specials. I remember I went to his hotel room to rehearse with him, and he was zoned out on medication or something, and I'm thinking, How is this going to happen?

It was a lucky escape: a promise made at a Christmas party is still a promise.

It was strictly his decision. We did his evaluation before Christmas, and he said he was thinking about resigning. I told him to think it through and if he wanted to, we'd like a letter in the first week of January.

It will be a nice, little Christmas, just the four of us. We just got the tree up and the decorations (Thursday) night.

It's a Christmas picture of Brock & his tank, overseas that he sent up around Christmas time.

Catherine Hicks

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Dylan Lauren

I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.

Paul Pierce

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

Tinashe

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

David Sedaris

The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

David Sedaris

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

Dave Barry

Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

Dave Barry

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

Dave Barry

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Dave Barry

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!

Dave Barry

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.

Mitch Hedberg

A severed foot is the perfect stocking stuffer.

Back-to-school is our Christmas time for educational items.

Back around Christmas time, I really thought this team was jelling into a nice team. Just the way they started to play as a five - they really started to get the concepts we were starting to teach.

Rather than the doom and gloom we've been hearing, the consumer hasn't packed it in, and Christmas sales will be reasonably good.