Classic Christmas Sayings

#1. Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

Zooey Deschanel

#2. I'm 30, it's Christmas, and I'm a writer without a job. I sit here
engulfed in a furious fit of frustration. My future unknown. My
nuts so small you could fit them in a gnat's navel and have room
left over for my brain.

Josh Mitchell

#3. And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

Anthony Marra

#4. Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we've ever dreamed.

Peter Pan

#5. The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.

Alain Ducasse

#6. Love isn't only passion and joy. It's also sacrifice.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#7. My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.

David Blunkett

#8. This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

Barack Obama

#9. It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot

#10. I am justice," Gregori said softly, his voice impacable in its resolve. "There can be no fight, no battle, as there can be only one outcome. Mental or physical bout, or simply a match of our wits, there can be only one end. I am justice.That is all.

Christine Feehan

#11. trust your heart but use your head

Julie Garwood

#12. Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

Deborah Blum

#13. Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. By holiday time, Buena Vista Street felt like Bedford Falls, with its vintage lights and decorations, and a classic Santa Claus listening to children's holiday wishes at Elias & Co. Cocoa clutching---Guests in scarves and parkas filled the streets and shops.

Leslie Le Mon

#15. 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