John Gourley Quotes

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

Does anything good happen a couple days before Christmas? Nothing good happens just a few days before Christmas.

The hardest I've ever laughed in a cinema was at 'Silent Movie' by Mel Brooks. I was 12-ish and I actually fell out of my seat. I saw it 10 years later hoping for the same hilarity but it didn't happen. I'm not sure if that's because of me or the film.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

Trust me when you read the script for Bad Santa 2 I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I read the script first, and I was laughing out loud and blushing and couldn't believe what I was reading.

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.

I rather would prefer to see the movie theatrically, which I have the ability to do.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.