Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

Ric Keller

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

Richard Scarry

Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.

Warren Buffett

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

Walter Annenberg

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Zach Braff

I really do take more vacations than the president. You can quote me on that.

Jacob Braude

A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Joko Beck

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.

Haruki Murakami

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Alice Walker

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Alfred Hitchcock

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Swami Vivekananda

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Tommy Chong

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

Francis Chan

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

Jim Butcher

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Honore de Balzac

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Warren Buffett

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

Margaret Atwood

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Irving Kristol

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Georges Bernanos

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Jasper Fforde

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Jean Baudrillard

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Jeanne Moreau

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.