Christmas Stinks Quotes

#1. The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness or fortress of prudence all over the land.

Patrick Hamilton

#2. I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

Jessalyn Gilsig

#3. We understand nature by resisting it.

Gaston Bachelard

#4. How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

Hosea Ballou

#5. Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

B.F. Skinner

#6. We are generally punished by where we have sinned.

Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans

#7. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. Mr. Thwaites was, of course, a pronounced and leading Christmasist, being the instinctive leader of everything irritating and depressing, and the others followed him.

Patrick Hamilton

#9. Here is the desert of silence,
Blinking and blind in the sun--
An old, old woman who mumbles her beads
And crumbles to stone.

Alice Corbin Henderson

#10. You get NOWT for being second.

Don Revie