Quotes About Carol

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

Around the circle eyes began to glisten as Carol's awe of the Gospel laid bare the shame of those of us whose senses had been dulled to its wonder.

I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.'

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Cuando llegue el momento de mi lobotomía, ése es uno de los incidentes sociales que me propongo eliminar.

'Carol' takes place in the really early '50s, before Eisenhower has taken office. It's based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, her second and most autobiographical book and the only one outside of the crime milieu.

My childhood was quite turbulent and there was sometimes great insecurity about money.

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Wednesday, April 18, 1906, we ate roast beef and apricot jam. Pie

The story of meat follows a sacred typology: the birth of a God, the dismemberment of the god's body, and the god's resurrection.

A panoramic view of Chestnut Street—sometimes called the most architecturally perfect street in America

Hope, Lizzie says my name over and over and over again. Hope! And, oh, I stand there. Oh, my heart. I stand there, still.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

I know that. I do watch Spooks.' Carol was surprised. 'You do? I don't.' 'You should. They do.

Attractive smile, Carol added to her list of particulars as she shook the hand.

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

The Glasgow kirk in 1583 ordered excommunication for those who kept Christmas, and in 1593 the minister at Errol equated carol singing with fornication. The commission of such sins at Christmas need not even have been public. In a number of Scottish towns ministers were known to go door-to-door on Christmas Day to ensure that families were not feasting.

I felt 'Brokeback Mountain' re-imbued the love story with an authentic and unquestionable series of obstacles that these men faced. I think that's certainly true for 'Carol' as well.

I have it on indisputable authority that in Scarsdale, during a school celebration of Christmas, one of the children sang the carol as "God rest ye, Jerry Mandelbaum.