Christmas Quotes

[This year] we expect a three times larger Internet Christmas season over last year, and last year was three times over the prior year... The winners are going to win disproportionately. Amazon is the head of the pack. - Alan Braverman

[Technology is now an obsession, madly pursued. Quigley believes golf clubs aren't improving yearly, or even monthly. He thinks they're getting better by the week. That's why he makes sure to switch clubs faster than most players can unwrap them.] I won the first tournament this year, came in second in the next, and I don't have any of the 14 clubs I used in those tournaments, ... There's always something better. Always. I come here every day and, honestly, it's like Christmas. Like, what new thing can I have? - Dana Quigley

[Retail sales have gone up and down all year, but we won't fully understand what's going on in the minds of American shoppers until the last Christmas gift has been unwrapped. The holiday shopping season accounts for 20 to 25 percent of all retail sales and is also a barometer for the coming year.] We're not out of the woods yet... Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas. - Bill Dreher

[Just before Christmas, Nash argued with the Pentagon for] one point of contact, one line of authority and management chain-of-command. ... There'll always be a place for you somewhere. - David Nash

[Jay Williams likely is out of any Heat short-term plans. Agent Bill Duffy said that the former Duke guard still has work left before an NBA return.] I think he's probably 80 percent there... We think he'll be all the way back by Christmas, maybe the All-Star break. - Bill Duffy

[In January 1978, Wood was a detective sergeant working on the periphery of the case, and met Hall briefly.] He was very likeable and affable to meet - he used to send Christmas cards to one or two of the cops... And that's what made him even more dangerous, frankly. Policemen found him an extremely charismatic and plausible character, but utterly cold-blooded. - Tom Wood

[How it ended: When Amy sent her friend Christmas cards in 2001 and 2002 and didn't hear back, she didn't worry. She knew her friend was busy with her children; so was Amy. But when Amy's dad died and the friend only sent a condolence letter to Amy's mother,] I realized it was probably deliberate... I'm not going to wrack my brain wondering what offended her. It just slowly dissolved. If she doesn't want to hear from me, I'm not going to bother her. - Amy Wilson

[Haig told Perot that] the Christmas effort to send mail to U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam caught Hanoi off balance, and its handling of the matter caused it to lose face in the eyes of diplomats and other foreign officials in North Vietnam. ... a tremendous success. - Alexander Haig

[Finally there was that searing heat.] We were working outside in the sun all day. I was quite worried about how hot it was getting, so I took a thermometer out there and it blew up at 60 degrees! We were shooting right up until Christmas and it just got hotter, ... All of the locals were saying, 'You reckon this is hot? This is nothing.' - Chris Kennedy