Holiday Quotes - Page 11

• Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

  Ted Kooser

  Valentine, Valentine's Day, Poet

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Views, Numbers

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• soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Phones, Waiting

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• …though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance. I didn’t want to be thinking of Him. I wanted to be free—like Gypsy. I wanted life itself, the color and fire and loveliness of life. And Christ now and then, like a loved poem I could read when I wanted to. I didn’t want us to be swallowed up in God. I wanted holidays from the school of Christ.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Distance, School, Thinking

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• when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

  Jenny Downham

  Car, Dying, Tin

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd ever known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.

  Denis Johnson

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Names

  "Jesus' Son". Book by Denis Johnson, December 1992.

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• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Nymphs, Color

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Believe, Time Flies

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• CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

  Bill Watterson

  Religious, Guy, Religion

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  Karl Pilkington

  Book, Sleep, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

  Karl Pilkington

  Girlfriend, Wife, People

  "Karl Pilkington and Warwick Davis". www.rte.ie. November 22, 2012.

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• For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

  Karl Pilkington

  Values

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Fighting

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• Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

  Dick Gregory

  Calendars, Drink, Checks

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• But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Jesus, Couple

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• Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Halloween, Costumes, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Beach, Memories, Nice

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• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

  Ina Garten

  Thanksgiving, Adore

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Summer, Children, Home

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Years, Long, Mind

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• Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Way, Sticks

  "The Real Tina Fey" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2010.

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• 'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.

  Will Ferrell

  Running, New York, Tights

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• Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

  Julian Fellowes

  Lunch, Goes On, Dinner

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• During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

  Lauren Conrad

  Party, Dresses, Tights

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• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Kings

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