Short Holiday Quotes

#1. Being a football fan entitles us to a temporary, recurring retreat, a short holiday from real existence. Our lives can be in chaos and nothing seem fixed. Nothing except how we feel on a Saturday at 3pm, when we are elevated into blissful and infuriating distraction. What a privilege that is.

Daniel Gray

#2. If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.

Chico Xavier

#3. Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Lisa Scottoline

#4. Who would have thought God would send a bad man and a sheriff just to save Prince?

Debra Holland

#5. Evidently, women are capable of experiencing rational thought and sexual arousal simultaneously, because I appeared to be doing precisely that.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written - it's a quirk left over from my days in graduate school.

Kim Wright

#7. I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

Barbara Hutton

#8. Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.

Roxanne Snopek

#9. What a great hitch to pit!

Jerry Coleman

#10. I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

#11. As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.

Tippi Hedren

#12. Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Aesop

#14. One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Ellen McLaughlin

#15. Remember what you do in life is merely a reflection of who you are as a Christian, one who loves and serves the Lord.

Rachel Hauck

#16. How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#17. Never in a hurry never worried never desperate never stopping short

Ryan Holiday

#18. If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

Margaret Halsey

#19. Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

Tom Hodgkinson

#20. You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

John Wells