Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Dillard

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

Daniel Kahneman

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period...

David Foster Wallace

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

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?

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.

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.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Andy Rooney

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nick Cannon

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Maeve Binchy

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

Michael Jackson

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

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.

Cassandra Clare

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!

Geoffrey Canada

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

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.

Jemima Kirke

I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.