• "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." - Ralph W. Sockman Tweet
• "Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely." - Frank McCourt Tweet
• "At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts." - Guy Berryman Tweet
• "I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas." - Gary Barlow Tweet
• "Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day." - Dag Hammarskjold Tweet
• "Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions." - Orson Welles Tweet
• "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven." - April Winchell Tweet
• "At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special." - Kevin Richardson Tweet
• "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." - Dale Evans Tweet
• "I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album." - Tanya Tucker Tweet