Boxing Day Shopping Quotes & Sayings

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent? — Julien Gracq

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up. — David Rakoff

Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the direction they should take. — Alan Murray

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed. — Ian Hart

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing
light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light. — Jodi Picoult

The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect. — Don DeLillo

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people. — Sally Mann

The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic — Patrick Leigh Fermor

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times. — John Cleese

Much of what is written on the craft is biased in one way or another, so weed out what is useful to you and ignore the rest. I see the next few years as being crucial in the transformation of our culture away from the patriarchal death cults and toward the love of life, of nature, of the female principle. The craft is only one path among the many opening up for women, and many of us will blaze new trails as we explore the uncharted country of our own interiors. The heritage, the culture, the knowledge of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers. The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts ~~ Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be. — Starhawk