Long Weekend Quotes:

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

- Richard Nelson Bolles

topic: Friday, Monday, Weekend, Friday Night, Long Weekend

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

- Rick Mercer

source: "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

topic: Weekend, Nuts, Long, Long Weekend, Skydiving

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

- Zoe Saldana

topic: Weekend, Going Away, Company, Long Weekend

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

- Lois Wyse

topic: Weekend, Power, Two, Long Weekend, Two Weeks

Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

- Julie Burchill

source: "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Weekend, Long Weekend, Proxy

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

- Emily Giffin

topic: Children, Weekend, Funny Things, Time Away, Long Weekend

Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Summer, Holiday, Home, Family Holiday, Nuclear Families

Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Valentines Day, Weekend, Long, Long Weekend