#christmas

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#excuse #excuses #holiday #north #northern

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#christmas #deathly-hallows #desire #family #joke

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand. ↗

— David Davis

#christmas #jobs #librarian #library #censorship

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#both #christmas #costly #deal #enjoy

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies). ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#already #because #body #call #christmas

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. ↗

— Enid Nemy

#essential #office #prestige #retailing #windows

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#christmas #concerted #concerted effort #effort #steal

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

— George Carlin

#bad #bad girls #because #jolly #knows

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#electric #got #i #instead #saxophone

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anti-semitism #christmas #civilisation #daniel-pearl #detroit