Taking Down The Christmas Tree Quotes

#1. Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#2. I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Agnes De Mille

#3. An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

C.S. Lewis

#4. And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

#5. Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Amy Cuddy

#6. The grandfather explained to her that it was the sun that did it. "When he says good-night to the mountains he throws his most beautiful colors over them, so that they may not forget him before he comes again the next day.

Johanna Spyri

#7. For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

James Gray

#8. Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

Thomas Brooks

#9. Stories are breadcrumbs.
Just follow the trail of books
and you will find me
lost among the galaxies
of scorched stars and ships to Mars.

Nikki Grimes

#10. when two strains compete for the same resources, the strain with an internal timing system that is most adapted to its temporal environment has the greatest advantage.

Till Roenneberg

#11. Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

Will Self

#12. I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

Amanda Peterson

#13. Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

Halle Berry

#14. Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#15. I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

James Nachtwey