Mr. Frank Shirley: Remember how I was toying with the idea of suspending the Christmas bonuses? Mrs. Helen Shirley: You *didn't*! Well, of all the cheap lousy ways to save a buck! SWAT Commander: That's pretty low, mister! If I had a rubber hose, I w...
Rizzo the Rat: How do you know what Scrooge is doin'? We're down here and he's up there! Gonzo: I told you, storytellers are omniscient; I know everything! Rizzo the Rat: Hoity-toity, Mr. Godlike Smarty-Pants. Gonzo: To conduct a proper search, Scroo...
[Rizzo and "Mr. Dickens" are sitting on the window ledge outside Scrooge's bedroom] Rizzo the Rat: [looking around] Um, are you sure it's safe for us to be up here? Gonzo: Scrooge is saved. What can happen now? Rizzo the Rat: Yeah. [Scrooge opens the...
Robert Marley: You will be haunted by three spirits. Ebenezer Scrooge: Haunted? I've already had enough of that. Jacob Marley: Without these visits, you cannot hope to avoid the path we tread. Robert Marley: Expect the first ghost tonight, when the b...
Rizzo the Rat: Light the lamp, not the rat, light the lamp, not the rat! Put me out, put me out, put me out! Gonzo: Oh! My apologies! Um... [Suddenly spotting a barrel of water below the lamp post] Gonzo: Rizzo! Rizzo the Rat: What? ["Mr Dickens" pus...
Kris Kringle: You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look ...
Want to create the best Christmas ever? Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve your forgiveness. Hug a stranger. Pass on something that you want to keep for yourself. Spend time with the ones you love. Spend time on your knees. Decorate your life with...
Carpe Diem By Edna Stewart Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I? The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me? Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman my ...
Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.
There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.
Gonzo: My name is Charles Dickens. Rizzo the Rat: And my name is Rizzo the Rat... wait a second! You're not Charles Dickens! Gonzo: I am too! Rizzo the Rat: No! A blue furry Charles Dickens who hangs out with a rat? Gonzo: Absolutely! Rizzo the Rat: ...
Christmas is a state of mind.
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.