Jolly Holiday Sayings

#1. Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. Your true passion should feel like breathing; it's that natural.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

Xunzi

#4. I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Alan Arkin

#5. We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

Dave Barry

#6. The flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Tim Brookes

#7. the choices we make dictate the life we lead

Danny De Vito

#8. The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

Brian Clough

#9. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

Joseph Stalin

#10. Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

Lauren Collins

#12. At this rate, we'll be the only ones left," Ron told Harry and Hermione. "Us, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. What a jolly holiday it's going to be.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Dan Brown

#14. I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

Henry James

#15. I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

Squidward Tentacles

#16. Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

John Ruskin

#17. She waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. As far as I can tell, the biggest side effect of a gluten sensitivity is that you actually become the number one symptom: a huge pain in the ass.

Celia Rivenbark