Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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?

Dr. Seuss

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

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.

David O. Selznick

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

We've been overwhelmed by the wonderful response we've received at our new locations. It's really been surprising to see how many people have just stopped by and left with our merchandise. We sold out of holiday items very quickly.

Patrick Byrne

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

Mike Thompson

We'll have the same schedule of events, just a different holiday weekend.

Berkeley Breathed

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Bill Vaughan

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc..

That announcement reminded people how big e-commerce will be during the holiday season.

David Brown

Markets are starting to wind down for the long holiday weekend.

Bob Hope

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

Today was a holiday for some people and that's why we had light volume,

We're a little more positive about the outlook of the holiday shopping season than we were in October.

John Carpenter

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

The market will likely open mixed. There's a holiday in the U.S. and oil is strong because of the Nigeria attacks.

Joseph Addison

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

Joni Mitchell

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

Kenneth Grahame

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.