Vacation Quotes

• I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Vacation

• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Memories
  • Summer
  • Weekend

• In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Ourselves
  • Choosing
  • Prop

• When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Person
  • New
  • Vacation

• I think families should vacation together, and cruising is a wonderful option.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Together
  • Option
  • Vacation

• Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Escape
  • Wondering

• Life is a vacation God gives to you!

  

  Celedonio Romero
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Vacation

• I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • House
  • Vacation
  • Pointless

• I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Long
  • Family
  • Dark

• I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Christmas
  • Vacation

• Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Vacation
  • Sort
  • Automatic things

• Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

  

  Bernard Bolzano
  • Pleasure
  • Experienced
  • Mathematician

• One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.

  

  Eric Dezenhall
  • Challenges
  • Clients
  • Egos

• A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Life
  • Writer
  • Consists

• Understanding how to find the magic moments in your daily life is critical. If you subscribe to the philosophy that says, "My vacation will free me from burnout," then you`re waiting for a few days out of the year to make up for many days of stress. Instead, you have to be able to take mini-vacations on a daily basis.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Understanding
  • Waiting
  • Magic

• Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Computer
  • Voices
  • Screen

• I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Criminals

• 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
  • Theatre
  • Films
  • Mountaineering

• I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman is for cranberries is doing a great job. He's showing up everywhere. Hey, what do you got, some apples? Put some cranberries in there. We'll call it cran-apple and go 50-50. What do you got grapes? How about cran-grape. What do you got mangos? Cran-mango. What do you got pork chops? Cran-chops. Why don't you back off, cran-man. Why don't you take your sales trophy and have a vacation.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Hell
  • Apples
  • Salesman

• A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Pleasure
  • Vacation
  • Nostalgia

• President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

  

  Kate Obenshain
  • Home
  • President
  • Korean

• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Happiness

• Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Remember
  • Vacation

• Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Money
  • Photography
  • Relief

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