Quotes About Holiday

I did not think I could stand a Christmas at my parents' house, with a plastic tree and no snow and the TV going constantly. It was not as if my parent were so anxious to have me, either. In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. Mr MacNatt was an auto-parts salesman; Mrs MacNat was shaped like a pigeon and sold Avon.

Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. "Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?

Damn it, said Wimsey, savagely, I always did hate watering-places!

On the evening of November 1, 2007—All Saints' Day—Rudy Guede climbed a wall, used a rock to break a second-floor window under cover of darkness and forced his way into a small house on Perugia's Via della Pergola where Meredith Kercher lived with three other women who, because of the holiday, were not present at the time.

He would like, really, to take a long holiday. But he couldn't afford to do that. He could afford it financially, of course, but he couldn't afford to drop out. You were soon forgotten nowadays.

But where was youth? Studying, she supposed, at universities, or doing a job—with a fortnight's holiday a year. A place like this was too far away and too expensive. This gay and carefree life was all for the thirties and the forties—and the old men who were trying to live up (or down) to their young wives. It seemed, somehow, a pity.

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

Philly has that tradition of great basketball.

I love an elasticated waistband on holiday. I look like the before photo of a makeover. I don't care and no one can see me.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

A perfect holiday for me is somewhere warm with a beach because I love swimming in the ocean, while my husband and daughter prefer splashing around in a pool. Great produce is also essential, somewhere offering good, simple food. It doesn't have to be gastronomic.

Very occasionally, I wish I was French. The fantasy usually materialises just after a holiday, when I dream of living by the warmth of the Mediterranean, or after a trip to Paris during which I indulge fantasies of being a Left Bank cafe-bohemian.

Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.

I loved the first Christmas I had in England.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!