Quote by Sloane Crosley
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the sam

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, its usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is fairy lights, which we boringly refer to as Christmas lights. – Sloane Crosley

Other quotes by Sloane Crosley

Theres already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk – except they all apply to you, and all at once. – Sloane Crosley

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Marriage
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Ah, the power of two. Theres nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? – Sloane Crosley

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parenting
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Other Quotes from
Christmas
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Im bad on Valentines Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine oclock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. Im in ToysRUs all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. – Jamie Foxx

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Christmas

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. – Robert Lynd

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Christmas

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead. – David Cameron

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Christmas

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. – George Carlin

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Christmas

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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous. – Judy Moreo

Category:
Presentation

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. – Theresa May

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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Death