Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Polonsky

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...

Abraham Polonsky

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

Dick Miller

This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium.

Dick Gregory

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

Deborah Ann Woll

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

Drake Bell

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

Dylan Moran

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

Douglas Bader

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

Coolio

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Action Bronson

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

Dan Harmon

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

Dylan Moran

Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture ‘cause you’re too busy recording it - so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.

Douglas Coupland

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Douglas Coupland

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

Donald Trump

It's interesting that during [Hillary Clinton's] FBI review, which took place on a massive holiday and which wasn't recorded and lots of other things, that she went 39 times. She didn't remember, she didn't remember.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

David Letterman

President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

David Letterman

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

David Letterman

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

David Letterman

You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.

David O. Selznick

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

Amy Adams

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Anne Robinson

I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

Alice Lowe

The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.

Danny Boyle

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

Dan Savage

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

Dan Rather

Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small?

Cornel West

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

Conan O'Brien

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

Amy Sedaris

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

Alton Brown

Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.