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" I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. "
Frank Butler
Little
Behind
Christmas
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" Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. "
Dag Hammarskjold
Day
Moment
Time
" In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.' "
Sylvia Plath
Winter
Christmas
Remember
" The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want. "
Frank Butler
Want
Giving
Get
" With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad. "
Vince Clarke
Song
Sad
Homeless
" Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories. "
John Boyne
Loved
Christmas
Ghost
" When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards. "
Isabella Rossellini
Pig
Family
Always
" Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.' "
Elif Batuman
Christmas
Time
End
" In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! "
Lloyd Kaufman
Die
Christmas
People
" I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special. "
Dean Devlin
Love
Big
Christmas
" The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth. "
Jay Parini
Story
Men
Wise
" Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day. "
Elvis Mitchell
Ambition
Christmas
Day
" Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. "
John C. Maxwell
Value
Story
Life
" There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie. "
Ice Cube
Hood
Real
Never
" Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.' "
Sloane Crosley
Name
Lights
Frustration
" My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in. "
Les Dawson
Christmas
Mother-In-Law
House
" I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else. "
Kate DiCamillo
Time
Me
Good
" I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that. "
Thomas Sangster
Thought
Good
Christmas
" My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since! "
Sophie Kinsella
Morning
Book
Chocolate
" If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.' "
Denis Leary
Me
People
Work
" I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips. "
Melanie Brown
I Can
Values
Bad
" A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots. "
Ashley Benson
Red
Christmas
Love
" Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance. "
Tove Jansson
Gold
Time
Rich
" I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. "
William Tecumseh Sherman
Present
City
Christmas
" I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. "
Henry Rollins
Paper
War
Christmas
" Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. "
Julian Fellowes
Special
Buildings
Always
" I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. "
Gina Gershon
Gift
Small
Love
" I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. "
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thought
Think
Good
" Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. "
Ralph W. Sockman
Religion
Youth
Science
" But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year. "
Trishelle Cannatella
Card
Christmas
Calls
" I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play. "
Shaquille O'Neal
Try
Christmas
Early