Quotes About Work And Holidays

#1. People had huddled back into the old core of the city; and once the suburbs had been looted, they burned. Like Moscow in 1812, acts of God or vandalism: they were no longer wanted, and they burned.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.

Terry Pratchett

#3. We've yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain 'life' we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work 'against' the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work 'with' the whole of God's character.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.

Tamer Hassan

#5. If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

#6. To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I go on holidays. Moreover, that's when new projects occur to me: while contemplating beautiful landscapes or seascapes.

Mario Bunge

#7. I've done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it's better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don't want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.

Holt McCallany

#8. I have never understood the point of holidays, have never felt the need for them and have always just wanted to do more work.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#9. In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art ... drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days

Cennino Cennini

#10. In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

Erin O'Connor

#11. I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Juicy J

#12. See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

Shawn Stewart Ruff

#13. You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Bono

#14. 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.

Pankaj Mishra

#15. People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#16. I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

Alan Titchmarsh

#17. Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Dev Hynes

#18. wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure." "But

Paulo Coelho

#19. I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

Vinnie Jones

#20. Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

C.S. Lewis

#21. Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Samuel Johnson

#22. Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

Ben Elliot

#23. 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.

Maria Shriver

#24. I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.

Peter Andre

#25. For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. Levi was all smiles and fond glances. "Sweetheart, get the door. I've got this."
Cath pressed her fingertips into her temples. "Did you just call me 'sweetheart'?"
He grinned. "It just came out. It felt good.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. Do you not like The Beatles?" Frank asked, sounding shocked. "Do you also not like sunshine and laughter and puppies? I don't think the Beatles get enough recognition. I mean, when you look at their body of work and how they changed music forever. I think there should be federal holidays and parades

Morgan Matson

#28. Relaxation is good, holidays are necessary, but there is nothing as rewarding and healthy as doing what you love and loving what you do. Our honest toil should inspire and satisfy us.

Ogwo David Emenike

#29. You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

Al Murray

#30. Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Kahlil Gibran

#31. Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Billy Joel

#32. Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn't either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

Grant Cardone

#33. Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Martin Parr

#34. And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.

Emilia Fox

#36. He didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.

John Scalzi

#37. Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

#38. There's really no way of ever knowing how the audience is going to respond to any episode or change.

Stephen Nathan

#39. What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?

Mickey Rivers

#40. I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

Imelda Staunton

#41. It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.

Michael O'Leary