"holiday"タグの名言

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

Don't get caught up in the wrapping paper and forget that the gift of the Christmas season is simply love.

It takes wisdom to gain wealth without losing health.

After some point, working harder makes achieving the goal harder or even impossible.

Doing is often a subconscious escape from being.

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

In December 2014, Uber held its annual holiday party on an unfurnished floor at its swank, mood-lit headquarters in San Francisco. Employees and investors attended in flamboyant attire from the Roaring '20s and drank at an open bar into the early morning hours.

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

A golf holiday with the guys is always nice. I'm a bit of a bandit on the golf course because I play with a handicap of 10, but I should be lower than that.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.