Katie Melua Quotes

I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.

I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Whenever it gets a little cold in L.A., it gives me an excuse to light my fireplace. You could stare at that joint for, like, a cool two hours. It's entrancing.

I believe with baking there is a certain nostalgic fix.

From my point of view, this is the best time of the year. I don't love heat. I'm a winter guy.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Winter = baking season. It's on.

I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.

Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.

The Bowery Hotel is always a great place to meet people for drinks. It's so cozy in there, especially in the late fall and winter.

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

My favourite place in the world is home.

I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

I used to watch 'Last Comic Standing' with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.

There aren't too many things that make you feel better than a little kid seeing you, yelling your name, and running to you.

There's something about home that you just can't find anywhere else in the world.

Delhi, for me, means my mother and lots of love!

Hotels are nice and everything, but there's no place like home.

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.

There's always something about home that's special.

You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark