• "When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit." - Jeff Dunham Tweet
• "I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas." - Burt Ward Tweet
• "The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings." - A. J. Liebling Tweet
• "Christmas albums are not something you do frequently." - Isaac Hanson Tweet
• "I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing." - Muddy Waters Tweet
• "I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!" - Nancy Kerrigan Tweet
• "Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?" - Pippa Middleton Tweet
• "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm Tweet
• "I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas." - Frank Butler Tweet
• "There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in." - Helen Hayes Tweet