Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas. - Dennis Franz I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies. - Lucas Grabeel All items listed above belong in the world In which all things are continuous, And are parts of the original dream which I am now trying to discover the logic of. This Is the process whereby pain of the past in its pastness May be converted into the future tense Of joy. I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision (1974) - Robert Penn Warren

Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always. -Stephen Dedalus- - James Joyce Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when you celebrate your holidays! Demand more of yourselves! Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call "happiness" are not over here or over there, they are only "within yourselves. - Hermann Hesse There's the house where that little red-haired girl lives... Maybe she'll see me, and come rushing out to thank me for the Christmas card I sent her... Maybe she'll even give me a hug... Maybe Billie Jean King will call me tonight, and invite me out to dinner. - Charles M Schulz It will be...

Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?" "Okay, your father is officially off my Christmas list !" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car! - Rachel Caine Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany's)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!" "So Santa-san is delivering gifts to children while driving under the influence... ? - Hidekaz Himaruya This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven) - Dean Hughes My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. - Pico Iyer Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not b...

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall! - Dave Barry Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. - Peg Bracken Merry Christmas to all, and y'all sleep tight. - Po Bronson She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I'll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal." "It's Christmas, Dashiel. Can't you give that atitude a rest?" "Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents." "What presents?" "I'm sorrythose were all from Mom, weren't they? - Rachel Cohn every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips s...

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured. - Joanne Fluke I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? - Ian St John

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?' - Jensen Ackles We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. - Peter Agre Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared - Cecelia Ahern oooh that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said "So you can look up 'fun'. "I'm not sure you know what it means. - Cassandra Clare That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means. - Cassandra Clare...

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. - Louisa May Alcott I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. - Bernard Manning The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq. - Rick Springfield In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year. - Keith Thibodeaux

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. - Clint Black I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. - Norman Vincent Peale

The stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with overpriced Christmas junk, and the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible- it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. - Raymond Chandler Why are there so many people out here?' Boomer asked as we bobbed and weaved roughly forward. 'Christmas shopping.' I explained. 'Already? Isn't it early to returning things?' I really had no sense of how his mind worked. - David Levithan Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds. - Sophie Kinsella During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ. - Tobymac

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that. - Gemma Arterton My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents. - Mario Batali Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers. - Auguste...

I'm tired of living here in this hotel, snow and rain falling through the sheets. In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street, strung out like some Christmas lights out there in the Chelsea night - Ryan Adams Sitting at the old patio table she'd cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She'd come here with too many expectations. - Sarah Addison Allen You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune. - Ilona Andrews I bought a big-ass house and haven't decorated it yet," Psycho replied defensively. "Patio furniture looks good in my living room. I don't have a lamp. The red and green Christmas lights work just fine." "The lights blink." "So do I. - Kate Angell At the heel end of the day, I need my glass of wine. Christmas lights for the brain. - Bill Callahan W...

Christmas is over and Business is Business. - Franklin Pierce Adams Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming." Sebastian gave Jace a thoughtful look. "You have a smart mouth. - Cassandra Clare Dan keeps telling Snow White that "Christmas is coming!" How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains? - Donald Barthelme Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. - Charles M Schulz Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. - Gilbert K Chesterton Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. - Jimmy Cannon I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),.. - Stephen King Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. - John Clayton...

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always - a song for all the years. - Bess Streeter Aldrich The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. - Paul Engle You won't find the word happy in any self-respecting grumbler's dictionary, no matter it's Christmas Eve or the any other day. - Cleveland Amory At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the worst weather. - Jane Austen This peppermint winter is so sugar sweet I don't need to taste to believe What's December without Christmas Eve. - Owl City According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christma...

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. - Peter Agre I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?) - Sarah Rees Brennan The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice. - Jim Butcher I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're...

There went any progress we'd made in being friends. It was going to take more than shared lunches and singing Christmas carols to get over the fact that I'd basically implied he was capable of murdering his own family. - Eileen Cook Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. - Ethel Merman Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise. - J D Robb

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords. - Patricia Briggs There went any progress we'd made in being friends. It was going to take more than shared lunches and singing Christmas carols to get over the fact that I'd basically implied he was capable of murdering his own family. - Eileen Cook A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. - Leonard Maltin Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. - Ethel Merman Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise. - J D Robb

He wondered how Vilania was doing. He'd have to send her and her partner, Opal, a Christmas card. Thank the gods that Opal had been walking by when the ceremony started or he'd be married to a lesbian right now. - Vicktor Alexander What happened?" Abigail "What always happens when preternatural powers are unleashed or go to war, and no one cares about the collateral damage during the battle. I lost my entire family in the blink of an eye. Buy hey, I saved a lot of money on not having to buy Christmas cards." Sasha - Sherrilyn Kenyon No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank. - Andrew Barrett There's the house where that little red-haired girl lives... Maybe she'll see me, and come rushing out to thank me for the Christmas card I sent her... Maybe sh...

What happened?" Abigail "What always happens when preternatural powers are unleashed or go to war, and no one cares about the collateral damage during the battle. I lost my entire family in the blink of an eye. Buy hey, I saved a lot of money on not having to buy Christmas cards." Sasha - Sherrilyn Kenyon No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank. - Andrew Barrett

Sophie and I would use her Christmas break to make homemade treats from our very own kitchen. I mean, if thousands of meth addicts can do it, why can't we? - Celia Rivenbark Almost every damn school in the world gets out earlier for Christmas break than the school I go to. - J D Salinger

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster. - Andrea Arnold The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas. - Fall Out Boy Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. - J K Rowling One bright, sunny morning not too long before Christmas, Annabelle woke to feel the sunlight's mockery shining upon her shriveled skin. Its rays caressed her body, taunting and reminding her that though her light would soon be extinguished, the world around her would shine on, vibrant as always. - Nicole Ireland My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same ques...