Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Fey

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Diane Kruger

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

Diane Kruger

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Daniel Handler

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Craig Ferguson

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Craig Ferguson

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

Craig Ferguson

Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

Craig Ferguson

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

Craig Ferguson

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

Arlo Guthrie

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

April Winchell

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

Ashley Judd

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

Sharleen Spiteri

She's knackered. All these Christmas parties have taken their toll.

Most of the time I worked full time at the fairgrounds, then I went straight into Christmas Love.

We are a little unsettled due to injuries and face an Edinburgh team in form - they have lost only once at home since Christmas 2004.

Augusten Burroughs

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

Augusten Burroughs

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

We decided that between the two of us we'd probably have about 1,000 names, but we set a goal of 1,500 names and said we'd send something to every person. We figured Veterans Day weekend would be perfect because that would give us about six weeks before Christmas to get the stuff over there.

We've been here till after dark on Christmas Eve more than once. We've been here till after dark on New Year's Eve more than once. People don't stop dying for holidays.

We're accelerating all the time and we're hoping to get to the west coast of the U.S. by Christmas Day, but it's difficult to predict.

We headed through our snowy neighborhood wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

We didn't want to close it during the Christmas holiday.

Gareth Thomas

There is no doubt people have started to think seriously now about Christmas spending.

Gigi Hadid

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

Terry Zwigoff

The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life,' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

Earl Nightingale

On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.

Lots of people were activating phones under the Christmas tree.

Last year, (the team) went with her for a long stretch just after Christmas.

Lloyd Kaufman

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Said Sayrafiezadeh

There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

Ann Voskamp

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

We still have it. I saw it a couple of days ago in the garage when I was home for Christmas.