Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Howard Shaw

[When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

Anthony Bourdain

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Dennis Prager

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

Bret Easton Ellis

I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.

You told me that on the way over here, I would have told you I'd be on vacation tomorrow.

They would have that take a vacation from this case.

Conan O'Brien

People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.

David Letterman

The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

Carolyn Mackler

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

I moonlighted during a two-week vacation, doing a month's worth of work in two weeks; it almost killed me, but I wanted to stretch my muscles and the letter from the producer says, "Your storyboarding is Eisensteinian," referring to the famous Russian filmmaker.

Julia Glass

It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

Nick Saban

The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.

Mark Twain

Make your vacation your vocation.

Marguerite Duras

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Marian Keyes

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

Giorgio Armani

When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time.

J. K. Rowling

I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

Marion Cotillard

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

Naomi Judd

I don't take vacations.

Nick Cannon

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

Nate Silver

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

Jay Chiat

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Jay Leno

John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.

Jay Leno

Before they went on vacation, Congress voted to exempt themselves from Obamacare. They gave themselves a special exemption because they thought it was too expensive. So the people who voted for Obamacare for us voted to exempt themselves from it. You know how doctors take the Hippocratic Oath. Congress apparently takes the 'Hypocritic Oath.'

Janeane Garofalo

Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

Gilbert Gottfried

I'm a very anti-vacation person. Because I'm always getting on planes for work, to me, a vacation is when I don't have to get on a plane.

Gertrude Stein

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting

Hayao Miyazaki

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

Evan Esar

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

Erin Heatherton

I always stay active, even if Im on vacation.