Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Abbott

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

Gena Showalter

We're on vacation, Kaia, Strider grumbled. You weren't invited. She waved away his words as if they were unimportant. Deep down I know you meant to invite me, so ta-da. Here I am. You're welcome. It's scary how well you know us. Here, pay for this, William said, dumping his candy into Strider's arms. We'll be in the care. Making out.

Elon Musk

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Elon Musk

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

Ashley Tisdale

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

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.

Freddy Adu

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

Christian Dior

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

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.

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.

Nick Cannon

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

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.

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.

Nate Silver

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

Mark Twain

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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?

Naomi Judd

I don't take vacations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

B. C. Forbes

Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.

B. C. Forbes

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

Ben Schwartz

The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation.