Top 100 Quotes About A Vacation
#1. Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.
Brittany Howard
#2. So because of their affair, Emmanuelle gets a promotion and a raise, Adam gets a vacation, and I got an STD panel.
Kristan Higgins
#3. His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to anyone who built or constructed something in their respective profession.
Amit Kalantri
#4. I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
Gail Collins
#5. Don't wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.
Debasish Mridha
#6. It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.
Felicia Day
#7. If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
Kin Hubbard
#8. Explaining the Jews in a Catholic school when you're Irish is like having to explain your country's foreign policy while on a vacation in France. You don't know what you're talking about and no matter what you say, they're not going to like it anyway.
John William Tuohy
#9. Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.
John Steinbeck
#10. A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
Max Von Sydow
#11. My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach.
Lisa Greenwald
#12. My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from.
Rob Hill Sr.
#13. After all, the function of a vacation is regenerative, not luxurious. It's to restore our equipment so that we can live our ordinary lives better.
Malcolm Bradbury
#14. You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.
Jennifer Carpenter
#15. Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
Erica Jong
#16. This kind of heat sucks when you're not at the beach with a cold beer in your hand. I need a vacation from my vacation.
April Mae Monterrosa
#17. Reading... a vacation for the mind....
Dave Barry
#18. I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
Mary Crosby
#19. Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up.
Dan Lauria
#20. I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
Aaron Koblin
#21. There's nothing like a mission to save the world to liven up a vacation.
Donita K. Paul
#22. No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave.
Jayde Scott
#23. Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
Erwin W. Lutzer
#24. Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach ... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
Steven Wright
#25. As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.
Irv Kupcinet
#27. Perfume is like cocktails without the hangover, like chocolate without the calories, like an affair without tears, like a vacation from which you never have to come back.
Marian Bendeth
#28. Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#29. That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
Elon Musk
#30. The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
Mason Cooley
#31. A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson
#32. I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
William Gibson
#33. Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.
Larry Norman
#34. Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.
Suzanne Brockmann
#35. I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
Ron Rash
#36. A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
Jacob Braude
#37. IF a goldfish should want a vacation, who would know?
Kehlog Albran
#38. It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
Charles Duhigg
#39. My gracefulness took a vacation this weekend?
E.C. Newman
#40. She kind of hates Orlando; she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy. I think she just wanted a vacation from that.
John Green
#42. Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin..
John Paul Stevens
#43. I come alive by giving back, seeing my children smile and hearing them laugh, standing up for things I believe in, achieving a goal, being there for those who need me, spending quality time with my husband, and indulging in "me moments," whether it's a vacation or just a night out with friends.
Trista Sutter
#44. Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
Madeleine L'Engle
#45. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
#47. The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
Mario Batali
#48. Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#49. In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.
Judy Carter
#50. In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.
Brad Thor
#51. I always feel a little blue when a fun trip is over. The planning and anticipation of a vacation, and then the trip itself, are always so much fun. Getting home and back to real life always makes me feel a little empty.
Karey White
#52. Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?
Ray Bradbury
#53. i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me
Rupi Kaur
#54. If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
Bill Murray
#56. I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
Wolfgang Puck
#57. Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself?
Devon Monk
#58. For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
Woody Allen
#59. Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade.
Tom Rath
#60. I am a vacation. I am the Caribbean, and a fruity drink and a sunburn and a break from real life. But I am not real life. No one lives in the Caribbean. No one wants a fruity drink every day. I'd rather be water: necessary.
Corey Ann Haydu
#61. My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.
Debasish Mridha
#62. It turned out that looking forward to a vacation or event provided even more happiness than the event itself.
Tom Rath
#63. Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!
Tucker Max
#64. Really I think I like who I'm becomin.. There's times where I might do it just to do it like it's nothin. It's times where I might blow like 50k on a vacation for all my soldiers just to see the looks on all their faces, all it took was patience
Drake
#65. When pressed to tell people how I got myself into my current nepotism-gone-bad situation, I like to describe it as a mini-breakdown. The prefix makes all the difference. It makes it sound more like a vacation than a condition best treated with medication and art therapy.
Jill A. Davis
#66. I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
Claire Forlani
#67. But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation
Greg Behrendt
#68. I've worked with Filipino technicians, and they are, I think, among the best. I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines, maybe for a vacation or to shoot a movie.
Timothy Hutton
#70. You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.
Mario Andretti
#71. People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.
Kevin Durant
#73. 'Indigenous' is a bit of a gory thriller film that's centered around five best friends who take a vacation to Panama. They are enticed into the forbidden jungle by a local Panamanian and are being hunted by an indigenous creature - the legendary Chupacabra.
Lindsey McKeon
#74. Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.
Tim Tharp
#75. I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.
Lewis Black
#76. Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.
Sharon Gannon
#77. The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
Andy Rooney
#78. I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.
Jessica Alba
#79. Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
Evan Dando
#80. Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only 'wants' are for others to feel as good as you do.
Gary Hopkins
#81. I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.
Wolfgang Schauble
#82. Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST ... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
#84. Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
Karen O
#85. It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation.
Markus Zusak
#86. If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.
Nancy Duarte
#87. We are on location, this is not a vacation.
Deyth Banger
#88. I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
Rachael Ray
#89. Borrowers were told not to worry about paying the ever-mounting debt, because house prices would keep rising and they could refinance, taking out some of the capital gains to buy a car or pay for a vacation.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#90. I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
Nate Silver
#91. Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim
Ilona Andrews
#92. I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
Jeffrey Wright
#93. Was it possible that I - short, too full-figured, wearing glasses, I diligent but not intelligent, I who pretended to be cultured, informed, when I wasn't - could have believed that he would like me even just for the length of a vacation?
Elena Ferrante
#94. I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman
#95. The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day
#96. Myself, I love the woods. I love the wild places. Ask me where I'd go for a vacation and it invariably involves the open country. Ask me where I'd live, however, and it would always be in the center, in the beating heart of a city.
C.J. Cherryh
#97. God and the devil took a vacation that night, leaving me alone with the shadow of death.
Dannika Dark
#98. The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
Marguerite Moreau
#99. Live a life you don't need to take a vacation from
Jill Liberman
#100. [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.
Anna Howard Shaw