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.

Frank Beamer

We thought we had a shot at him. But it's tough to get those South Florida guys away from Miami.

Janet Montgomery

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

Vincent Bugliosi

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

Jeff Clarke

I lived in Florida for 12 years. If we had a long summer, it would be good,

Jeb Bush

I'm more than happy to work with the ownership of the team and the Florida legislature to come up with a solution.

Ted Bell

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

Marco Rubio

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

Natalie Jeremijenko

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

Karen Russell

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.