Quotes About Celebration

I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I'll take that any day, my man!

After the release of my first film 'Gangothri,' my father was so happy that he surprised me by buying me a swanky high-end car.

The first time I found out that 'Boo'd Up' went platinum, I was handed the plaque. They really surprised me. I thought we were gold, and then Mustard and my managers brought the plaque to my rehearsals and told me. I was like, 'You are lying!' Like, I couldn't believe it. I'm just honored, honestly. It's a great feeling.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy.

It feels so good to be amongst some of the biggest legends in music - it feels quite surreal.

When they announce you as husband and wife for the first time, it's very surreal.

I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.

I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

When you win a Premier League title it still feels a bit surreal after a couple of weeks.

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. Why don't you dance?

California, the department store state.

I used to like mine with champagne. The champagne as cold as Valley Forge and about a third of a glass of brandy beneath it.

Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society.

On ordinary days we each walk alone or with a companion or two on the sidewalks, and the streets are used for transit and for commerce. On extraordinary days—on the holidays that are anniversaries of historic and religious events and on the days we make history ourselves—we walk together, and the whole street is for stamping out the meaning of the day.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. It's an extraordinary declaration, asserting that the unknown need not be turned into the known through false divination or the projection of grim political or ideological narratives; it's a celebration of darkness, willing – as that "I think" indicates—to be uncertain even about its own assertion.

They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.

Très Ya-Ya-No!