Quotes About Celebration

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

Dad said that the guy who can play guitar is going to be the life of the party. He's confusing life with death.

That all is right with the world. "Man, oh man," he'll say in my memory, lifting his glass and taking us all in, "isn't this just fantastic

Who does this—goes to the shows of people they're supposed to be proud of and counts the empty seats?

His "wickedly selfish" Americans loved to celebrate their "own heritage, and on this condition are content to see others crushed in our midst.

recipient and that, as a surprise honeymoon gift, I'd

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade

Je me suis souvenue des soixante ans de mon père. On avait mangé une choucroute à la République. C'était l'âge qu'avaient les parents. Un âge immense et abstrait. Maintenant c'est toi qui l'as. Comment est-ce possible? Une fille fait les quatre cents coups, se trimbale dans la vie juchée et peinturlurée et tout à coup se met à avoir soixante ans.

That's life. The celebration of the superfluous.

To make some sense of life –to prevent ourselves from going mad– we have one ready means of escape, and that is to dance while we can.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Between propriety and joy choose joy.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

Then they had gone outside, onto the steps, where a breeze lifted secondhand confetti

Every New Year's Eve is impending apocalypse in miniature.

You cannot avoid hearing drums in Haiti.

She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.

Using "the spy-glass of Anthropology," her work celebrates rather than moralizes; it shows rather than tells, such that "both behavior and art become self-evident as the tale texts and hoodoo rituals accrete during the reading.

All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable. Then they hushed and ate barbecue.

Lawd, look at Tookie switchin' it and lookin' back at it! She's done gone crazy thru de hips.

Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.

It was really exciting to see how 'Bridesmaids' was accepted and how well it did.