My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the…

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

— Sarah Silverman

Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and…

— Edgar Wilson Nye

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she…

— Lauren Oliver

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

— Tori Amos

Christmas was a miserable time for a Jewish child in those days, and I still recall the feeling. ... Decades later, I still feel…

— Faye Moskowitz

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

— Wallace Stevens

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a…

— Zachary Schomburg

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single…

— Jeremy Begbie

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had…

— Christine Lakin

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third…

— Joseph Cotten

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I…

— Whitley Strieber

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

— Leonard Maltin

I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant,…

— Bun B