Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berkeley Breathed

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Bill Vaughan

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc..

Antonia Thomas

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Billy Boyd

Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

Billie Holiday

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.

Bertrand Russell

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

Carine Roitfeld

I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

Celia Rivenbark

Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

Motivator did his first piece of work since his holiday this morning and everything went very well. It was more than satisfactory from what I have been told.

Elizabeth Bowen

whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

Deepak Chopra

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Dominic Monaghan

Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.

Dominic Monaghan

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

David Nicholls

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

Abdul Kalam

DONT DECLARE HOLIDAY ON MY DEATH, INSTEAD WORK AN EXTRA DAY, IF U LOVE ME

Augusten Burroughs

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Auberon Waugh

The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

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

We recommend you take out as much as you are going to need for a long holiday weekend.

Sadie Jones

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

Alex Garland

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

Aldous Huxley

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Aldous Huxley

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Abraham Polonsky

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...

Abraham Polonsky

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

Action Bronson

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

Cornel West

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

Conan O'Brien

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.