Quotes About Festive

#1. Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

Martin Heidegger

#2. Learn to win a lady's faith
Nobly, as the thing is high;
Bravely as for life and death -
With a loyal gravity.
Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Guard her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#3. I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.

Heather O'Neill

#4. Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

Jose Garces

#5. I've never seen a world
So festering with damnation. I have left
Rings of beer on every alehouse table
From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties,
But each time I thought I was on the way
To a faintly festive hiccup
The sight of the damned world sobered me up again.

Christopher Fry

#6. The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

Salman Khan

#7. What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Plato

#8. I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people.

Sofia Milos

#9. Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.

Jane Cleland

#11. When a woman wants to look festive, she should add some shine, sheen or sparkle to her outfit, like a metallic clutch, an embellished shoe, or a blingy statement necklace.

Clinton Kelly

#12. It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

Lara Stone

#13. Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.

Danny Meyer

#14. Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

John Donne

#15. What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Johann Georg Hamann

#16. There was a dead mouse in the sink. Maybe someone had left it there to welcome them. Maybe it was a festive gift.

Cassandra Clare

#17. When the pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he organised festive prayers to celebrate

Yuval Noah Harari

#18. It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

Cam Newton

#19. When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Henri Nouwen

#20. When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

Sharon Gless

#21. Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#22. I now see that the hands that forgive, console, heal, and offer a festive meal must become my own.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#23. November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

F. Sionil Jose

#24. Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration ... is the only true religion I know of.

Rajneesh

#25. Look" I narrowed my eyes at Mr. Gorgeous. "I'm kind of in the middle of a nervous breakdown and after that I plan on having a very festive pity party, table for one, so unless you are here to put me out of my misery I suggest you scurry on your way.

Jennifer L. Hart

#26. I may plan to make Christ the center of Christmas, but when I wait until December to focus on celebrating His birthday, I become entangled in Christmas lights, holiday baking, and festive engagements, often wondering if I've experienced the illusive "true meaning" of Christmas.

Ann Marie Stewart

#27. Happy New Year' is a festive form of address often uttered without thinking. Yet how many souls will in fact be happy in the coming year is a taxing question requiring a great deal more thought.

Alex Morritt

#28. Why does this forever gone, irretrievable time, why does it seem brighter, more festive and rich, than it was in reality?

Anton Chekhov

#29. The city most believed to be the handsomest in Kentucky never failed to impress ... The streets, lined with booths and wagons from which people displayed their wares, had a festive air.

Jan Watson

#30. I used to figure that Santa was the zombie. Not like modern zombies, more like the voodoo ones. The elves resurrect this long dead saint to do their festive bidding every year because they were magically restricted to the North Pole. It's entirely possibly my mom let me watch too many horror movies.

Thomm Quackenbush

#31. I always look forward to the holidays because I love dressing up in festive, shimmery evening dresses.

Hilary Rhoda

#32. The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

#33. Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.

William Spencer

#34. My sister and I didn't know what that meant either but we were not equal to two questions in a row. And I knew that wasn't what rape meant anyway; it meant something dirty. "Purse. Purse stolen," said my mother in a festive but cautioning tone. Talk in our house was genteel.

Alice Munro

#35. There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.

Susan Orlean

#36. My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.

Vladimir Sorokin

#37. If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive

Thom Yorke

#38. Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Anne Lamott

#39. Dozens of people who'd been boo-hooing their eyeballs out an hour earlier were laughing like overcaffeinated hyenas, stuffing their face with a whole week's worth of SQ-rationed food. Dak wondered whether funerals for old people always ended up being such festive affairs.

James Dashner

#40. Squirrels, otters, hedgehogs, mice,
Moles with fur like sable,
Gathered in good spirits all,
Round the festive table.
Sit we down to eat and drink.
Friends, before we do, let's think,
Fruit of forest, field and banks,
To the seasons we give thanks.

Brian Jacques

#41. I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Bobby Flay

#42. Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.

Meir Soloveichik

#43. The festive season isn't just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it's also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#44. The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#45. Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. It was the same mantra she had silently chanted before on other festive occasions. 'May you be happy'--her mother had wanted to be happy, hadn't she? Didn't everyone?" Things Unsaid, from Chapter, "Birthday Celebration

Diana Y. Paul

#47. The tarps Ken Weinrich's crew used has yellow and royal blue stripes, not unlike those for a circus, and this had lent a festive yet undignified mood to the proceedings.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#48. Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another Santa. That's what all those mall Santas are. They're trying to start their own festive colonies.

Thomm Quackenbush

#49. If you were enjoying a festive dinner at a friend's house and found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?

Gregory Stock

#50. The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock

#51. By day Lisbon has a naive theatrical quality that enchants and captivates, but by night it is a fairy-tale city, descending over lighted terraces to the sea, like a woman in festive garments going down to meet her dark lover.

Erich Maria Remarque

#52. Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm about to go under. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.

Dennis Miller

#53. Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Mimi Sheraton

#54. So much din from so many philosophical brainboxes! Trust in your philosophy now! Boast that you are the one who has found the lucky bean in your festive pudding!

Michel De Montaigne

#55. A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

Etienne Francois, Duc De Choiseul

#56. Be not lax in celebrating.
Be not lazy in the festive service of God.
Be ablaze with enthusiasm.
Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#57. Gladly I close this festive day, Grasping the altar's hallow'd horn; My slips and faults are washed away, The Lamb has all my trespass borne.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#58. Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

Roseanne Barr

#59. This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?

R.D. Ronald

#60. Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.

Christopher Moore

#61. When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.

Maya Angelou

#62. Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.

Gustav Krupp

#63. Yea, Paris is a festive ton
a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy
Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

D.H. Lawrence

#64. Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

Gary Shteyngart

#65. What most people find festive - a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on a summer night - I see as a bleak nightmare to be grimly endured. I would sooner put lit cigarettes in my eyes than share a vacation house with a crowd.

Jancee Dunn

#66. If a man had to wear heeks they'd be outlawed across the land. Festive in death: chapter 15

Nora Roberts

#67. Eve "I shopped,"she said
Roarke "Dear God! Are you all right? Should I call for the MTs?"
Eve "Smartass.

J.D. Robb

#68. The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Will Advise