Quotes of: Holiday-season Keyword

The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.

Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unr...

Steve McManaman

In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely somethin...

Raf Simons

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very...

Beth Orton

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those gu...

Joe Greene

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

Ted Kooser

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Kurt Cobain

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Marianne Williamson

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.

Sarah McLachlan

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Bill Laswell

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

Kid Rock

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.

Nick Mason

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

Nick Mason

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

Nick Mason

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Suzi Quatro

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Charlie Watts