Quotes About Celebration

Death can seem so final, like a blade dropped through the neck. But the nature of death is not at all final. It is not some dark cliff off which we leap. I hope to show you it is merely a fog, something we can peer into and out of, something we can know and face and not necessarily fear. By each life taken from our collective lives we are diminished. But even in death we have much to celebrate. It is only a transition, like so many others.

The only reason why mankind has celebrated marriages is that they renew the race; they bring forth new life, within the bounds of a holy vow.

The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being in the first place, and that love is what we all duly celebrate.

To meet with things newborn: for the Christian, that is the hope that burns brightly at Christmas, and Pentecost, and Easter.

Meanwhile, the son of Pompey the Great celebrated his great victory.

We will work as if the PyeongChang Olympics is jointly hosted by Gangwon Province and Seoul.

That's what I really love about glamour and drag; it's about celebrating femininity and fun, while being really provocative.

A pub can be a magical place.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the cake to me.

Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.

Here's the deal: 25 years' worth of Deadpool. This movie comes out 25 years to the day we published him at Marvel, and you couldn't get a better gift if you're a 'Deadpool' fan.

There has long been an argument in New York about what, exactly, the purpose of book awards ought to be. One model sees them as a celebration of the unquestioned best and brightest, a triumphal parade for marquee authors who have published in a given year.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties.

I don't like discotheques, pubs, or late-night parties.

I pride myself on being excellent at fancy dress, and I have dressed up as Ronald McDonald, Lady Gaga, a Christmas pudding and a crocodile to name but a few.

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there's space for all of us to be who we are. There's space for us to celebrate each other and root for each other and not take each other down.

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.