#christmas

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#believe #essence #first #make #make believe

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#christmas #louse #story #such #up

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#broadcast #christmas #christmas day #classic #day

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#cheese #holidays #like #log #nothing

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow. ↗

— Ice Cube

#get #how #i #i remember #jealous

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#dreams

I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. ↗

— Burt Ward

#around #before #book #book tour #christmas

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#cake #christmas #eat #got #i

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#christmas #doing #find #going #i

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. ↗

— Orson Welles

#christmas #christmas tree #come #died #fall