One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.' — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.' — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ where it is mentioned ” There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the… — Charlene Kemp Copy Share Image
Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk,… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” I… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“Fans of the Peanuts comic strip may also remember Snoopy beginning his novel again and again, always starting with the line 'It… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“In the Victorian times there was much demand for Christmas books, which would make an ideal gift, as well provide amusing entertainment… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The following two chapters are taken from Dickens’ first novel The Pickwick Papers, concerning the Pickwickians famous visit to Dingley Dell to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked out. The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Must love decorating for holidays, mischief, kissing in cars, and wind chimes. No specific height, weight, hair color, or political affiliation required… — Matthew Grey Gubler Copy Share Image
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them. — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.' — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I told her that there was something about Christmas carols that always brought tears to my eyes. I added that I also… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
A Christmas Carol' is one of a few literary works that can be cited as a common cultural reference point, so its… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
