timetalk uses cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our site. If you continue without changing your browser settings, we'll assume that you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more by reading our cookies policy.

x

Famous Quotes

Back to Author

"Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'"

Sloane Crosley on Christmas

More quotes about Christmas

  • "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

    Calvin Coolidge on Christmas

  • "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

    Roy L. Smith on Christmas

  • "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

    George Carlin on Christmas

  • "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

    Dr. Seuss on Christmas

  • "A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

    Benjamin Franklin on Christmas

More quotes by Sloane Crosley

  • "You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial."

  • "Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops."

  • "I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory."

  • "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha."

  • "The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power."

© Supatel Limited 2024