Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

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.

We are seeing nice traffic up to the last minute. We think (the holiday season) is going right down to the wire.

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.

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....

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.

Jason Clarke

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

Nobody has anything left. The need of the holiday is on us, and we could use anything.

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.

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.

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.

Dylan Moran

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

Douglas Bader

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

Coolio

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Dan Harmon

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

Dylan Moran

Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture ‘cause you’re too busy recording it - so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.

Douglas Coupland

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Alton Brown

Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.

Amy Adams

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Anne Robinson

I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?