The Christmas Vacation Quotes

#1. Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.
-Stephen Dedalus-

James Joyce

#2. Sometimes you're just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Quentin looked curiously around. "This is a neat room," he said.

"Yes, it is," I replied, directing my compliment toward the distant ceiling. Everyone deserves a few compliments. Even a building.

Seanan McGuire

#4. Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

#5. For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.

Michael Dirda

#6. I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that,

Pooja Bhatt

#7. Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

Paul Tough

#8. Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

Robert Teeter

#9. Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Carrie Brownstein

#10. She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.

Hannah Kent

#11. I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about ... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

Johnny Galecki

#12. Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

#13. I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

Beverly D'Angelo