Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Letterman

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

David Jeremiah

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

David Eddings

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

Angelus Silesius

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Angela Carter

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Allison Pearson

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

Andy Rooney

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

Andy Rooney

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

I was like a kid on Christmas morning.

I think it happened during our Christmas tournament. It had been a few games.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

He's a demon. He said he needed money for Christmas gifts. It's the lamest excuse I could hear.

He's dying to get into that car. He's like a kid on Christmas morning when the parents won't wake up.

John Oates

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Tom Williams

I think the one thing you can say about Christmas is that it always comes, ... We think it will be a good Christmas.

Steve Young

I thought Everett did a lot of the things we expected them to do. They're a very structured hockey club. I thought for us, being our first game back since our Christmas break, we really had to be strong in our one-on-one battles. It got better as the game went on, but to start with we weren't as strong as I felt we should have been.

I thought about it a lot (during Christmas break). Coach had us in the locker room for an hour afterward so it's hard to forget about that loss.

I think you have a satiated consumer, you've got a consumer that's facing an increasing debt load and I think there wasn't a lot interesting short of the scooters this Christmas season.

Tom Ford

He (Morales) said he did not have a girlfriend. He said he stayed up there (in New York) Christmas because of money and he would take a vacation in the summer and be able to stay longer when he returned to De Queen.

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Jack Rio

Hopefully, the people back in Jacksonville are pretty happy about that Christmas present we just gave them.

Matisyahu

The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Houston Nutt

He has made a real sacrifice and commitment to staying in shape over Christmas and spring break. He looks real good.

Mark Siegel

He has this Christmas party every year in New York.

Malaika Arora Khan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Gary Jones

For most of them, Christmas is not a good day. For some of them, Christmas is the worst day, because they're not with their family.

Given the plethora of new and improved products that we should see this Christmas ... if there was a year to have a delay, this is it.

David Thornton

He tried to grab them and I said, 'No, you can't. They're all full of mud and you can't take them because they're ruined, ... I told him, 'You can always get another. Christmas is coming up.'