Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vidal Sassoon

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

Stephanie Beacham

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

Tryon Edwards

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Susannah McCorkle

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Stacy Keibler

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

Tamara Ecclestone

I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

Sami Gayle

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

Rupert Everett

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

Tom Arnold

To the extent that movies get released, they are generally not big box-office generators. Hollywood is clearly focusing on their holiday releases coming up and those will either make or break the year.

Stanley Elkin

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

Robbie Robertson

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Michael Phelps

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

Ray Brown

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

Michelle Ryan

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

John Milton

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

John Muir

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Mark Zandi

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

Melissa Etheridge

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.

May Sarton

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

Matsuo Basho

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

Laura Kightlinger

My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. What didn't I get to open this year?

Lisa Kleypas

Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

John Travolta

I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

Pepper Schwartz

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

Mariah Carey

Everyday is a holiday with me.

Nora Roberts

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

Miranda Richardson

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

John Ruskin

Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.

Lucinda Williams

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

Markus Zusak

I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

We're looking at the holiday selling season this year with some concern.