100+ Holiday Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Viral Video Singer Betty Who Doesn't Want to Get Proposed to in Home Depot". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 8, 2013.

topic: Home, Holiday, Thinking

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

- Bill Condon

source: "'BREAKING DAWN': NEW PHOTOS AND A CHAT WITH THE DIRECTOR!". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2012.

topic: Beach, New York, Holiday

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc..

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Holiday, Discipline, Secret, Fourth Quarter, Victoria's Secret

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Holiday, Thinking, Two

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

- Bing Crosby

topic: Christmas, Blessed, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

- Bob Hope

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Simple, Loving Others, Joy Of Giving

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

- Bob Iger

topic: Holiday, Singers, Way, Fondness

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

- Bob Schieffer

topic: Friday, Holiday, Weekend

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

- Bobby Flay

source: "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

topic: Sweet, Nice, Holiday

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Holiday, Men, Games, Versus, Ambitious Man

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

- Booth Tarkington

topic: Christmas, Children, Holiday

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

- Brad Alan Lewis

topic: Holiday, Games, Training, Training For The Olympics

I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

- Brad Goreski

topic: Party, Holiday, Giving, Times With Friends

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

- Brian Clough

topic: Holiday, Shoes, Boots, Fourteen

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Kings, Holiday, Thinking

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

- Brooke Burke

topic: Girl, Dream, Holiday, Family Holiday, Visions And Dreams

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

- Brooks Atkinson

topic: New Year, Memories, Holiday, Spiritual New Year, Inspirational New Year

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Holiday, Years, Long

Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back.

- Bruce Poon Tip

topic: Holiday, People, Giving

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Dream, Morning, Holiday

I'm so glad you're back. We need you here. I mean...Burnett's okay, but...he's not you." Holiday arched a brow. "I hear he wasn't even himself for a while there." Miranda frowned. "He told you about the whole kangaroo thing, didn't he." "Yeah," Holiday said, and her brows tightened. "And I must say, I'm very disappointed with you, Miranda" she reached out and gripped Miranda's hand. "The next time you turn him into anything, do it when I'm here to enjoy it." -Taken at Dusk

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Taken, Holiday, Mean, Kangaroos, Miranda

My feet are always cold. I'm a vampire," he said in a teasing voice, almost as if he was trying to chase away Holiday's somberness. "And if I remember correctly, you complained about that last night." He slowed down and slipped his arm around Holiday. "Marrying you doesn't scare me a bit. It's the best thing that could ever happen to me. I'd never run out on you. I'll be the first one to the church.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Running, Holiday, Night, Marrying, Last Night

As Kylie buried her head on the camp leader's shoulder, she heard Burnett scold, "I thought I told you to wait at the camp." Kylie felt Holiday tense at the reprimand, and then she raised her head. "And I thought you knew I don't follow anyone's orders." "Does anyone listen to me around here?" Burnett asked, his frustration making his tone sound almost comical. "Obviously not," one of the FRU agents said, and chuckled.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Holiday, Frustration, Order, Listen To Me, Comical

Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt breath and looked at Kylie. She nodded at him as if giving him the lead. He looked back at Holiday and, in a deep voice, said, "Kylie has something to tell you." Kylie's mouth fell open and right then she knew it was official. Men sucked at verbal communication especially where anything emotional was concerned.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Communication, Eye, Holiday, Verbal Communication, Steps Forward

Holiday's eyes pooled with tears. And that pretty much made it a cry fest. Even Della joined in the tear party. Right then, Burnett walked in the office. His gaze went from one female to the other. Kylie could almost hear him groaning inwardly. "I...I'll be...right out there." Obviously even a hard-bodied vampire trained by the FRU wasn't capable of dealing with four crying women.

- C.C. Hunter

source: C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.181, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Party, Holiday, Eye, Groaning

Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Hate, Eye, Holiday

Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's voice. "Do Lucas," Kylie said. Holiday made a funny face and raised one eyebrow.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Holiday, Boys, Eyebrows, Funny Face, I Can Do This

The stupid vamp just asked me to marry him. Here, now? As if looking like I just died is how I wanted to be proposed to." Joy did a lap around Kylie's heart. "And you said?" Holiday took a sip of water. "I asked him if we couldn't just live together in sin." "And?" "He told me it wouldn't be a good example to our students. So...I agreed to marry him." She pushed a hand against her forehead. "Dear God, what am I getting myself into?

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Stupid, Heart, Holiday, Vamp

John rose to his feet and apologized to Holiday. Her mom seethed. Her dad tried to talk to her seething mom. Holiday tried to touch everyone. Burnett continued to glare green daggers at John, proving how hard it was for a vampire to accept an apology. Not that she blamed him. Kill him. Kill him. She cheered the vampire on. Lucas hadn't stopped scowling at Derek and Derek hadn't stopped ignoring Lucas.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Mom, Dad, Holiday, Seething

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Friday, Monday, Holiday

Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be The Happy Prince, The Gift of the Magi and Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I would like to keep that alive.

- Cameron Mathison

topic: Mom, Dad, Holiday

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.

- Carol Alt

source: "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

topic: Fun, Tired, Holiday

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.

- Carolina Herrera

topic: Fashion, Holiday, Design

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

- Caroline Kennedy

topic: Holiday, Kids, Effort, Meaning Of Christmas

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

- Caroline Kennedy

topic: Holiday, Past, People, Commercialism, Holiday Spirit

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

- Cathy Ladman

source: "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2006.

topic: Holiday, Religion, Guilt, Hate Religion, Different Religions

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.

- Cecily von Ziegesar

topic: Beach, Smart, Holiday, Bubble Bath

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

- Celia Rivenbark

topic: Fun, Holiday, Sadness, Cranky, Dejected

Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

- Celia Rivenbark

source: Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

topic: Holiday, Two, Baking, Pecans

In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art...drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days

- Cennino Cennini

topic: Art, Holiday, Drawing, Work Day, Intermission

I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

- Charisma Carpenter

topic: Monday, Holiday, Yesterday

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

- Charles Lamb

topic: New Year, Holiday, Years, Solemn, New Years Resolution

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

- Charles Lamb

topic: Holiday, Dry, Woods

In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.

- Charlie Brooker

topic: Brother, Silly, Holiday, Sunbathing, Present Day

To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

- Charlotte Mason

topic: Children, Book, Holiday

My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Children, Holiday, Home, Home For The Holidays

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

- Chris Brown

topic: Memories, Home, Holiday

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

- Chris Thile

topic: Holiday, Three, Celebrate, Telluride

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

- Christina Applegate

source: "Fur: Get Me Not!". The PETA Interview, www.peta.org.

topic: Holiday, Animal, People

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.

- Claire Holden Rothman

source: Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

topic: War, Holiday, Generosity

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

- Coolio

topic: Holiday, Infidelity, Purses

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Christmas, Spiritual, Holiday, Commercialism

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Holiday, Thinking, People

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

- Craig Johnson

topic: Halloween, Holiday, Effort, Half Way, St Patrick's Day

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

- Dan Harmon

topic: Holiday, Numbers, Tvs

Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small?

- Dan Rather

topic: Holiday, Thinking, News, Shoppers

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

- Dan Savage

topic: Holiday, Corporations

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

- Danny Boyle

topic: Holiday, Cities, Bored

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

- Darren Criss

topic: Heart, Holiday, Thinking

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

- Dave Barry

topic: Christmas, Religious, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Time

This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

- David Dellinger

topic: Dream, Fun, Holiday, My Wish For You, Holiday Season

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

- David Ginola

topic: Football, Holiday, Next, Going On Holiday, Football Season

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

- David Horowitz

topic: Birthday, Kings, Holiday

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

- David O. Selznick

topic: Holiday, Sunday, Terrible

I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

- David Salle

topic: Art, Holiday, Years, Conceptual Art

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Holiday, Kids, Parent, Divorced Parents

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

- Deborah Ann Woll

source: "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

topic: Holiday, Thinking, Interesting

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Holiday, Simple, Secret, Inspiring Yourself

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

- Denis Norden

topic: Children, Memories, Holiday

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

- Devon Werkheiser

topic: Sweet, Holiday, Work Out, Sweet Tooth

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

- Diana Ross

topic: Holiday, Records, Firsts

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

- Diane Cilento

topic: Tired, Holiday, Taming, Shrews, Taming Of The Shrew

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

- Dick Cavett

topic: New York, Holiday, Nightmare

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

- Dick Gephardt

source: "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

topic: Kings, School, Holiday

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

- Dick Gregory

topic: Holiday, Calendars, Drink

This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium.

- Dick Miller

topic: Holiday, Opportunity, Aquariums

I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

- Diego Luna

topic: Children, Holiday, Two, Family Holiday

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

- Dominic Monaghan

topic: Holiday, Animal, Goes On

Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.

- Dominic Monaghan

topic: Holiday, Different, Company

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Rain, Holiday, Clouds

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

- Douglas Bader

source: Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

topic: Holiday, Sea, Dover, Dunkirk, Evacuation

One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

- Douglas Booth

topic: Jobs, Struggle, Holiday, Going On Holiday

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begunâ€”that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidaysâ€”whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was havingâ€”that interludeâ€”the scrambly madnessâ€”all that time I had before?

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Holiday, Years, Finding Yourself

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Holiday, Technology, Break

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Holiday

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

- Drake Bell

source: "Miranda Cosgrove Interviews Drake Bell for Teen!". Interview with Mirando Cosgrove, www.seventeen.com. December 09, 2008.

topic: Holiday, Thinking, Atmosphere, Holiday Spirit

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Years, Merry Christmas Cards, Winter Christmas

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

- Earl Wilson

topic: Holiday, Vacation, Inspirational Vacation, Best Vacation, Vacation Time

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell.

- Ed Weeks

topic: Summer, Holiday, Kids

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

- Eddie Redmayne

topic: Summer, Holiday, People, Summer Camp

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

- Edmund Hillary

topic: Taken, Holiday, Years

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

- Edward Rowland Sill

source: Edward Rowland Sill (1972). “The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill”

topic: Home, Holiday, Afar, Merry Christmas Wishes, Christmas Wishes

I love holidays in New York. I love `em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

- Elaine Stritch

topic: New York, Holiday, Cities

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

- Elfriede Jelinek

topic: Art, Holiday, Fine

In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Sex, Holiday, People

Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Children, Holiday, Eye, Sunday Afternoons

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

- Elizabeth Jane Howard

topic: Holiday, Feelings, Guilty, Feeling Guilty

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: New Year, Holiday, Light

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

- Elizabeth Meriwether

source: "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

topic: Valentine, Home, Holiday, Friend With Benefits

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

- Elizabeth Noble

source: Elizabeth Noble (2011). “When You Were Mine: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

topic: Crush, Holiday, Lasts

Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to doâ€”I asked her for her autograph.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Block, Holiday, House, Opera House, Harlem

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Music, Block, Holiday

I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.