Top 100 On Vacation Quotes
#1. I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.
Michel Houellebecq
#3. They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation.
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
#4. I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.
Sean Hannity
#5. Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#6. Actually I brought a friend for you to meet." Ruby looked over at Kate. "Is she going on vacation here?" Kate smiled and stepped closer. "I wish I could go on vacation," she said easily. "But actually I
Kirkland, Rainy
#7. Sexual tension is like a ruthless pigeon. Feed it once and it will follow you around forever. It never tires or goes on vacation. It just lingers.
Chelsea Fine
#8. She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place.
Jonathan Franzen
#9. I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.
Enzo Ferrari
#10. When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.
Nile Rodgers
#11. To turn off your phone when you go to your country house or you're on vacation for a few days is important. I turn off my phone and just check it once a day. I turn it on and, if it's an important message, I'll call back. Otherwise, it can wait.
Alexander Skarsgard
#12. When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.
Sarah Mlynowski
#13. For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.
Isabelle Huppert
#14. Since Dr. Rajif was on vacation, I attended in his stead.
Victoria Sweet
#15. Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
Susan Sontag
#16. We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.
Dan Ariely
#17. Was the person in charge of karma on vacation? It wasn't fair.
Rich Amooi
#18. I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
Sloane Crosley
#19. Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.
Silvio Berlusconi
#20. Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
Richard Scarry
#21. I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.
Bailey Chase
#22. When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.
Jimmy Fallon
#23. Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#24. The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.
Frederick Lenz
#25. When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
Aimee Friedman
#26. I was sitting at a friend's place in Michigan on vacation, having a beer on the patio. I was a little hefty. I said to myself: "Okay, I'm going to finish this weekend off strong, then after that I'm going to shut her down. I'm going to start taking better care of myself."
Chris Pronger
#27. Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
Blake Mycoskie
#28. Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.
Marjane Satrapi
#29. I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
Kathryn Hahn
#30. High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
John Green
#31. I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.
Tom Hanks
#32. On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.
Christian Dior
#33. Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?
Mamie Till
#35. No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.
Chelsea Cain
#36. So Nikki came aboard as Jaqueline's spare cat, presumably in case our prime cat, Eliza, goes on vacation, takes industrial action, or requests a personal day.
Christopher S. Wren
#37. Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.
Buddy Guy
#38. This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makes
us feel very nationalistic, and so many people would be on vacation in foreign places.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#39. For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.
Michael Dirda
#40. Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. Sarah Palin should not be on vacation. She should be in summer school.
Bill Maher
#42. I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
Elizabeth Pena
#43. I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
Rex Stout
#44. I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
Ted Danson
#45. 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.
Conan O'Brien
#46. He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
Eddie Griffin
#47. People want to leave their homes but they can't go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of the house and seeing a good movie helps them to alleviate some of the pain that's going on in their life.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#48. I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
Morgan Freeman
#49. Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
Mona Simpson
#50. I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!
Franny Armstrong
#51. Every stupid thing in the world, decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer, makes perfect sense, not because you're any smarter, but because the smart part of your brain's on vacation.
Chuck Palahniuk
#52. I just love carbs. And when I'm on vacation I definitely allow myself carbs, so it's always funny when people are like, 'Oh my gosh, you look great in your bikini.' I'm like, 'If you only knew what I had for breakfast!'
Ashley Tisdale
#53. Jack: For Christ's sake, it wasn't like I was on vacation. I've been in Iowa, in cornfield hell!
Keely: Did you just say you got cornholed in Iowa?
Lorelei James
#54. The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Harlan Coben
#55. just learn to live life as if you were on vacation. Take time to read, play and enjoy everyday life.
Melody Stressdone
#56. 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.
Ben Schwartz
#57. I'm very busy with schoolwork, of course."
"How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We're on vacation!
J.K. Rowling
#58. I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?
Dave Barry
#59. The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
Nick Saban
#60. You're not on vacation, Bluelick. No sitting still while I do all the work. I'm going to give you my tongue again. This time I expect you to use it. We're going right to the edge, but not over. Understand?
Samanthe Beck
#61. My older brother's really good at making fun of me for just being a workaholic and never taking time for myself. Even when we go on vacation, I'm always working.
Nikki Reed
#62. It's okay to be sad, Mummy." Lucy promised on a know-it-all whisper. "But don't be sad all day. He only went on vacation. He wouldn't leave us forever. He loves us too much.
Rachel Higginson
#64. I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#65. I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#66. Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
David Allen
#67. If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel ... My friends treat me the same at home. They just want to sit down with you and have a beer.
Travis Fimmel
#68. it is wise in such circumstances to heed the advice of the venerable North American philosopher Pamela Anderson: "Never get married on vacation.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#69. The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.
Nhat Hanh
#70. I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.
James Franco
#71. It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
Frank Luntz
#72. L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
James Ellroy
#73. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Thomas Cathcart
#74. It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan
Cath Crowley
#75. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach. With anything, it's about finding the balance.
Bailey Chase
#76. If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you'll come back to four weeks of work. If you go on vacation for three weeks, people seem to figure it out for themselves.
Paul Orfalea
#77. When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
Mona Simpson
#78. When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
Jose Andres
#79. We know Zika's not going to go on vacation.
Rick Scott
#80. My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
Gary Allan
#81. I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.
Shay Mitchell
#82. 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.
Michael Jackson
#83. Even on vacation, Rihanna's easy breezy chic is not complete without a red lip.
Derek Blasberg
#84. When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
Vince McMahon
#86. You don't sound like a librarian," she said.
"I'm on vacation," Jacqueline laughed. "Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there? But stereotypes are awfully misleading. there are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. Any more than any other profession.
Elizabeth Peters
#87. The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.
Kelly Clarkson
#88. Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?
Jay Leno
#89. Busman's holiday is an expression which refers to when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives, such as plumbers who visit the Museum of Sinks, or villains who disguise themselves even on their days off.
Lemony Snicket
#90. I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.
Hamilton Leithauser
#91. It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
Jenny McCarthy
#92. There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.
Thomas Perry
#93. Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.
William Manchee
#94. One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.
Helen A. Rosburg
#95. But ... I know your heart was in the right place - even if your brain had clearly gone on vacation for the afternoon.
Shannon Messenger
#96. Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
Alison Sweeney
#97. After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
Johnny Depp
#98. I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
Parker Stevenson
#99. It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
Celine Dion
#100. Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one ... This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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