Quotes About Festivities

We Georgians are really into food and drink. We would never have finger food at a party or a wedding - celebrations are always one long meal, on one long table, with endless toasts.

There are going to be birthdays, weddings, BBQs and work dos and you are entitled to have a few drinks, a slice of cake, a pepperoni pizza or an Easter egg every now and then.

I think weddings are ridiculous.

I love the way Indian weddings are hosted. We have kept everything traditional - except our engagement ceremony.

I love planning parties and love planning weddings.

Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.

All-Star Weekend always treats me great. I love the atmosphere that comes with it.

I think the pollution due to crackers is coming down every year. I hope more people join in towards celebrating a non-polluted and eco-friendly Diwali.

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

If I'm having a party, the easiest and the biggest thing for me to make is a big pot of meatballs.

On Diwali, my parents, friends, cousins - everyone used to assemble at our home, where we used to have a Diwali mela.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

David's parties

You know, one used to give presents on New Year's Day. Christmas was for churchgoing and family gatherings. On New Year's one's friends came visiting and then presents were exchanged.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting.

I do like Christmas but the build-up is ludicrous. Such a kerfuffle about two meals and a few presents.

Even those children whose birthdays fall soon after the holidays receive fewer toys because of the recent Christmas spree.

The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts.

Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.

I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.