Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

John Daly

So, ... what do you want for Christmas?

June Diane Raphael

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

The monetary policy committee is still waiting for evidence on Christmas (retail) sales and wage negotiations. Then it will cushion the decline in the economy in a context of CPI (inflation) moderation.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Marcus Samuelsson

The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday.

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

I've never experienced anything like this. It all started at a Christmas tournament. Every day, it's somebody new.

I've always wondered what it is like to lose everything in a fire. This time of year, it's just even more devastating. But they made it easier. They just wanted to see their fellow man have Christmas too.

Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's are things you plan for, and you make sure you get your staff available,

Brian Posehn

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

Garth Brooks

It was the perfect Christmas gift to each other. We could not be happier.

It was a huge gadget Christmas this year and those products are perfect for comparison shopping online.

These Christmas tree recycling programs have really taken off in the last 15 years.

Donald Driver

The season was over Christmas Day. This is a new year and we started off a new season today.

These reductions come despite the anticipated record level of Christmas-New Year holiday travel.

The stores saw enough demand during the Christmas holiday that the wide launch in February went very well.

The squeeze on consumers is building. Retailers and other folks who deal with the customer are going to feel the customer's pain this fall and Christmas season. We'll be going through a short period of slow growth.

The signal we are looking for is very, very weak, about 1 watt of power -- or like looking for a Christmas tree light on Mars,

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.

Kevin Pietersen

That's not a Christmas present. It's with you for the rest of your life, so no one can take it away from me and say I'm not English.

We will be open late on Christmas Eve as well. And... the post office will be delivering on Christmas Day.

This week, in terms of the Christmas season, is probably the least important week, ... The last two weeks are probably going to be the most important. You have the widest spread between Christmas and New Year's that you can possibly have this year, so after this week, things really start to get interesting.

This was probably our most complete game since the Christmas tournament. Everything went the way we hoped it would.

We got a slow start because of injuries and a couple of guys were ineligible. But right before Christmas we were playing really good. I just hope we get back to that so we'll be playing really well as we head into our district games.

We just don't have the numbers. We let down right before Christmas, and you can't do that.

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

It would have been a very tight squeeze. If they were going to miss Christmas, there just wasn't a good reason to push it for 2006.

I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

The world won't end if we don't pick up their discarded Christmas tree today.

The season followed some patterns that are typical. We're seeing the week after Christmas playing a much larger role in the overall holiday shopping season.

Pierre Lueders

The road it took to get Lascelles here, it's unbelievable. I thought about that over Christmas and that it would just be horrible that he'd be sitting at home watching the Olympics and we're here competing.