Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian K. Smith

Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.

Evelyn Glennie

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

Ivor Novello

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

Hollywood will see a nice holiday season. These three movies are pretty much review proof.

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

Jack L. Chalker

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

It is very important for the Hinckleys to spend time with each other - not at a Holiday Inn but in their residence.

Martha Stewart

It's the saddest holiday ever. It's an unwelcome time for me; very unwelcome.

It's not the optimal situation, to be launching the next-generation version of Windows right after the big holiday sales season.

Lois Lowry

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Jon Stewart

Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.

Pankaj Mishra

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

Ozzie Smith

There are 22 million people who have, some point in time, played hooky from work or school, so it's already an unofficial holiday,

Paul McCartney

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

Pope Francis

Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

Rachael Ray

If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

Quincy Jones

Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

Ellen Hopkins

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

John D. Rockefeller

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.

Karl Pilkington

The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.

Karl Pilkington

I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried about life's big questions. People at my age sit about pondering about 'why are we here?' The only time I ever asked meself that is when Suzanne booked us a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.

Karl Pilkington

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

Karl Pilkington

Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.

Mike Huckabee

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Penelope Cruz

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

Josh Groban

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

Julius Sterling Morton

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Julie Roberts

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

Julian Fellowes

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

Maria Shriver

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

Ozzy Osbourne

In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

Paul Engle

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'