Vacation famous quotes
05-15-2025
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When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
-- Aimee Friedman -
I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.
-- Alan Tudyk -
I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?
-- Amor Towles -
I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.
-- Arianna Huffington -
I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
-- Ben Ames Williams -
The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation.
-- Ben Schwartz -
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.
-- Bernard Bolzano -
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
-- Bernard Cornwell -
Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment
-- Betty White -
All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
-- Bill Kurtis -
I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
-- Bill Kurtis -
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
-- Bob Dylan -
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
-- Bob Newhart -
Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.
-- Buddy Guy -
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
-- Camille Paglia -
This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.
-- Carl Honore -
In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!
-- Carlo Collodi -
You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
-- Carolyn Mackler -
It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
-- Celine Dion -
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by... I'm going to say hello to her and ask her how she's enjoying her summer vacation, and just sort of talk to her... You know..." "You'll never do it, Charlie Brown... You'll panic..." "Besides that, she's already walked by!
-- Charles M. Schulz -
The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
-- Charles McGrath -
He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.
-- Chelsea Handler -
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
-- Christa B. Allen -
On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.
-- Christian Dior -
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
-- Christian Slater -
Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
-- Christopher Bollen -
My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great.
-- Christopher Gorham -
I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.
-- Chynna Phillips -
I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
-- Claire Forlani -
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
-- Clarence Darrow -
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
-- Clarence Day -
There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.
-- Criss Jami -
Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up.
-- Dan Lauria -
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
-- Dana Plato -
If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.
-- Daniela Pestova -
At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and its more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. Its a lot more fun now with the family.
-- Dave Lombardo -
Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.
-- David Allen -
Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
-- David Allen -
It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.
-- David Brenner -
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
-- David Knopfler -
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
-- David Lloyd George -
Life is simply a vacation from the infinite
-- Dean Cavanagh -
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
-- Deborah Tall -
My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.
-- Derek Jeter -
My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond.
-- Dick Powell -
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
-- Don DeLillo -
There's nothing like a mission to save the world to liven up a vacation.
-- Donita K. Paul -
I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.
-- Doug Davidson -
I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience
-- Drake -
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
-- Earl Nightingale -
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
-- Earl Wilson -
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
-- Elizabeth Pena -
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
-- Ellsworth Huntington -
Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
-- Erica Jong -
I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation.
-- Erin Cummings -
I always stay active, even if Im on vacation.
-- Erin Heatherton -
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
-- Erma Bombeck -
My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.
-- Ernesto Bertarelli -
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
-- Eva Longoria -
Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
-- Evan Dando -
A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.
-- Evan Esar -
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
-- Evan Esar -
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.
-- Felicia Day -
Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.
-- Florence Prag Kahn -
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
-- Frank Gehry -
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
-- Frank Gehry -
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.
-- Frank Luntz -
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
-- Frank Luntz -
I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
-- Freddy Adu -
I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
-- Gail Collins -
Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
-- Gail Collins -
I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.
-- Gene Simmons -
Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.
-- Geoffrey Canada -
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
-- Greg Bear -
But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation
-- Greg Behrendt -
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
-- Harold Ramis -
Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.
-- Hilary Rhoda
