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Letter "H" » holidays
«I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.»
«I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.»
Author: John Waters
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
Christopher, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Columbus Day, fake, holidays, mail, Monday, Mondays
«To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.»
Author: Philip Andrew Adams
| About:
Holidays,
Reassurance
| Keywords:
holidays, reassurance, ritual, voyages
«At this time of the year, with the holidays upon us, nothing says she cares about how I am, where I am and what I'm doing as much as the restraining order»
«Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.»
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Birthday,
Christmas,
Religion
| Keywords:
birthday, Commandments, holidays, Precepts
«Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
at most, cemeteries, cemetery, holidays, occasional, orphan, orphaned, visit
«Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
absorbing, enforced, grudged, grudges, grudging, holiday, holidays, interruptions, vocation
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