Quotes About Celebration

On my sets, everybody seems very relaxed. I always try to avoid any tension before it even begins. A shooting has to be like a party. The creative process must be joyful, even if the final result is meant to be sad or scary.

What a privilege and honour it has been to be part of seven years of magic in a tent - 'The Great British Bake Off.'

I rarely drink, but when I do, I prefer Tequila.

I'm not really into beer, but I like tequila shots.

I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve. I saw in the New Year there once - it was the most terrifying experience of my life.

Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.

I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

I have given myself a Tesla for my 60th birthday.

It is a really proud feeling to get my first Test cap.

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities.

"And everybody praised the duke,Who this great fight did win.""But what good came of it at last?"Quoth little Peterkin."Why, that I cannot tell," said he;"But 'twas a famous victory."

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

That is why each year, from 4 to 10 April, games were celebrated (Megalesia): theatrical shows in front of the temple and chariot races in the Circus Maximus on the last day.

Marriage was so sacred that it couid not be celebrated on just any day or month of the year. May was ruled out, because it was the month of the old (maiores): 'Who marries then has not long to live' (Ov., F, 5, 488); the 9, 11 and 13 were in any case devoted to the dead. This prohibition was still observed not long ago in Provence. Also ruled out were the first fortnight of March (season of war: Ov., F, 3, 395) and June (before the 'purification' of Vesta's temple).

For the antiquarian Cornelius Labeo, Bona Dea was identified with the Earth, Maia, Fauna, Fatua or Ops (Macr., S, 1, 12, 21). The celebration was performed pro populo - for the safety and well-being of the Roman people.