Christmas Quotes

[Discovery's mission was] a very nice Christmas present... Santa Claus has been very, very good to NASA, no lumps of coal in their stocking. - John Pike

[Corpse Bride (Sept. 23) With Tim Burton riding high upon the sweet success of] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... The Nightmare Before Christmas. - Helena Bonham Carter

[Clooney starred in 1954's] White Christmas ... Come On-a My House. - Bing Crosby

[Carter, acquired Friday in a blockbuster trade with the Raptors, is still recovering from a strained Achilles heel injury and probably won't suit up for New Jersey until Dec. 27, Nets president Rod Thorn said Monday.] He probably won't play until after Christmas... We want him to be 100 percent. - Rod Thorn

[At the end of the day, the feedback was positive.] I bought
$200 worth of books, all my Christmas presents, and I got them
personalized... It was
great. - Linda Thompson

[Asked if he thought his sardonic tale of two embezzlers who run into violently funny complications one Christmas Eve in Kansas is] too intelligent for American audiences... what studio marketers call the 'first tier.' There are perhaps 50 theaters in the whole country that represent that audience, and the highest quality and most artistic films really can only survive and thrive in those markets. - Harold Ramis

[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to go to Stanford, instead of Harvard or M.I.T. as his father had hoped.] He appeared at my classroom door a few days before Christmas and told me I had helped him get through the last year of high school, ... At one time he had a dream of going into a dark alleyway with his father and only one of them would come out. He'd be the one, of course, but out there in Stanford, he began to think about his father and what it was like coming from Korea, working day and night selling fruit and vegetables when he knew barely enough English to get through the day, hanging on, desperate for his children to get the education he never had in Korea, that you couldn't even dream of in Korea. - Frank McCourt

[And what of these other members? How did they take Wyman's desertion and criticism?] Put it this way, ... I'm sure Tom didn't get many other Christmas cards. - Wheelock Whitney

[And this past Christmas, a friend of Parks' tried to use one at a food establishment.] He presented the card and it was fully expired, ... Someone had obviously put out cash for the card. The (law's) intent is that if you put cash out for something, it should be worth an equal amount when it is presented for redemption. - David Parks

[Although NDP Leader Jack Layton hopes] that there will not be a Christmas election... are not ruling anything out. - Peter MacKay