Festival Quotes

221 quotes by 192 authors

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of… — Annie Besant
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. — Ambrose Bierce
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. — Bjork
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? — Christina Aguilera
What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news… — Jo Brand
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is… — Sholom Aleichem
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that -… — Richie Havens
Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will… — Adolf Hitler
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize… — Rajneesh
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. — Pierre de Coubertin
Life is a festival only to the wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the… — George Gissing
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a… — Robert Morrison MacIver
We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time… — Jimmy Roy
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our… — Clifton Fadiman
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To… — Rabindranath Tagore
Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside… — Peter Hessler
Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado… — Joan Van Ark
Selfridgesâ€™ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status inÂ Japan and amongst festival goers. — Geraldine James

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