#holidays

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays. ↗

— Michael Baden

#died #experience #failure #good #holidays

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. ↗

— Dan Savage

#corporations #exploited #holidays #i #manufactured

Christmas is our annual reminder to look up - pondering celestial stars, to look out - serving those in need, and to look down - glorifying our Lord in humble prayer. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#holidays #lord #prayer #richelle #richelle-goodrich

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cook #dinner #especially #ever #fancy

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comes #greeting #guy #hallmark #holidays

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#cakes #cookies #desserts #dinner #end

This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons? ↗

— Zadie Smith

#holidays #beauty

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#interesting #new #thinking #vacation #equality

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind. ↗

— David Sedaris

#holidays #santa-claus #business

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#humour #twitter #twitter