Holiday Quotes - Page 23

• I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes in perfect penmanship,"Happy holidays. Hope everyone is well. I sliced up Ethan Ritter in Miami and scattered his remains in the Atlantic. Best wishes for the new year. Karl.

  Kelley Armstrong

  New Year, Years, Best Wishes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.131, Vintage Canada

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• Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Expectations, Wonder, Enough

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• My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

  Rupert Everett

  Ideas, Heathers, Hills

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• I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Song, Singing, Mood

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• I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

  Paloma Faith

  Home, Shopping, Enough

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• I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

  Roger Federer

  New York, Paris, London

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• I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

  Michael Phelps

  Church, Used

  "More Questions with Michael Phelps". content.time.com. April 19, 2007.

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• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

  Willa Cather

  Christmas, Song, Memories

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan

  Phil Thompson

  Summer, Player, Japan

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• I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  "The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

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• New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Years, Great Year

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• Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Sea, Salt

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• This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

  Shana Alexander

  Love, Vacation, Astonishment

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Years, Musical, Singing

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• I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Inspirational, Order, Needs

  "The Idler's view" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Memorial Day

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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  Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

  Barbara Jordan

  Education, Inspirational Life, World

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Vacation, Popular Entertainment

  "Cool Memories".

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Sadness

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• I had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful New Year and it was very special. That's all you're getting out of me.

  Katrina Kaif

  New Year, Years, Special

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• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Sweet, Home, Stuff

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

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• If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Travel, Nice, One Day

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• Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

  Katrina Kenison

  Being Alone, Opportunity, Solitude

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• Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

  Ronald Reagan

  Celebration, Individual, Celebrate

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• Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Vacation

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