December 31, 2019

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

- Roger A. Caras

December 30, 2019

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

- King Tuff

December 29, 2019

Most of the time the road is not clear ahead. We have roadblocks and obstacles and stumble because of them. Are you courageous enough to map your way around them and continue on?

- Tony Curl

December 28, 2019

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

- Daniel Goleman

December 27, 2019

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- Guillaume Apollinaire

December 26, 2019

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

- Jesse Eisenberg

December 25, 2019

And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!

- Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

December 24, 2019

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

December 23, 2019

Each bough doth hold its tiny light,
That makes each toy to sparkle bright.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy candles shine out brightly!

- "O Christmas Tree"

December 22, 2019

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.

- Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

December 21, 2019

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

- Burton Hills

December 20, 2019

Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand'ring
So fair to be seen.

Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too;
And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year
And God send you a Happy New Year.

- "Here We Come A-wassailing"

December 19, 2019

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

- Diane Lane

December 18, 2019

I never wanna know a day
That's over 40 degrees.
I'd rather have it 30, 20 then 5.
Let It Freeze!

- The Year Without A Santa Claus, "Snow Miser"

December 17, 2019

Oh, I don't know, I'm so confused. It's just, well, the Land of the Dolls is where you all belong. But I want to grow up. There's a million things I want to do; people to meet, worlds to explore. I've always wanted to dance in the ballet. Nutcracker, I do love you, but I can't stay in the Land of the Dolls forever.

- Clara, The Nutcracker Prince

December 16, 2019

What if Christmas, he thought, didn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, was a little bit more.

- Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas

December 15, 2019

We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye.

- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

December 14, 2019

My wife, Mary, and I have been married for forty-seven years, and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

- Jack Benny

December 13, 2019

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay

- Judy Garland, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

December 12, 2019

You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon.

- George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life

December 11, 2019

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

December 10, 2019

Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright.

- Silent Night

December 09, 2019

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

December 08, 2019

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

- Anna Wintour

December 07, 2019

Dear Santa, this year I'd like a fat bank account, and a thin body... please don't confuse the two like you did last time.

- Author Unknown

December 06, 2019

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

- Bill Bryson

December 05, 2019

Be a coffee-drinking individual — espresso yourself!

- Author Unknown

December 04, 2019

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

- Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

December 03, 2019

Christmas time,
On a cold December morning,
All is calm,
And the world is still asleep.

- Trans-Siberian Orchestra, "Promises to Keep"

December 02, 2019

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.

- Deborah Whipp

December 01, 2019

Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.

- Freya Stark

November 30, 2019

Home cooking is always concerned with quality, because people you care about will eat the meal.

- Richard R. Wilk

November 29, 2019

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.

- Bo Derek

November 28, 2019

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

November 27, 2019

Make your decisions like a rock & live your life like a flow of water.

- Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

November 26, 2019

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

- Andre Leon Talley

November 25, 2019

I'd rather be shiny;
Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck;
Scrub the deck and make it look shiny.

- Moana, "Shiny"

November 24, 2019

Water has memory.

- Frozen II

November 23, 2019

Poinsettias are so festive,
Beautiful to view!
But please don't eat them,
or your gut'll be mad at you!
These plants are slightly toxic,
to dogs and cats.
Best just to look at them,
And that is that!

- Author Unknown

November 22, 2019

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

- Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

November 21, 2019

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

November 20, 2019

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves.

- Richard Avedon

November 19, 2019

Hotels are superstitious places. No thirteenth floor or room thirteen, no mirrors on the back of the door you come in through, stuff like that.

- Stephen King, The Shining

November 18, 2019

Each brushstroke is a decision.

- Robert Motherwell

November 17, 2019

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

- Tibor Kalman

November 16, 2019

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

- Robert Crais

November 15, 2019

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

- Alessandra Ambrosio

November 14, 2019

Take that money and watch it burn,
Sink in the river the lessons I learned.

- OneRepublic, "Counting Stars"

November 13, 2019

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

- Marshall McLuhan

November 12, 2019

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

- Norman Vincent Peale