The South has a way of worshipping appearances – the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.
Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.
Our family’s special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent’s house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.
My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That’s all I wanted every year.
I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.
Lyndon B. Johnson thought he’d have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas – for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
There’s a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.
I don’t like most Christmas movies. They’re pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie ‘Elf,’ I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wife’s better judgment.
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, ‘From Beer to Eternity’ is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
The last Christmas movie I really liked was ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ probably. It’s sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it’s not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the ‘Nutcracker’ or ‘A Christmas Carol.’
I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn’t know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
I’ve played D&D for years. I’m a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
I’ve not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
I love the smell of a real Christmas tree – also, my mum’s Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood – odors from Christmas time and so forth.
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
I’ve never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
We don’t consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They’re still magical characters, and the fact they’ve been around the block only adds to their magic.
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.
All punk rockers hate Christmas.
I don’t know if that’s a year’s bad luck, or if that’s how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree – that can’t be a good thing, karma-wise.
It’s easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ or ‘A Christmas Carol,’ it’s different; you have to build it and build it.
My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
