A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace. — Naval Ravikant
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
Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! — Jimmy Buffett
Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you. — Nancy Reagan
I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely. — Jackie Collins
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change — Jim Rohn
Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return. — Spencer Antle
My best vacation is your worst nightmare. — Jim Bridwell
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries. — Lauren Ambrose
You know you love what you do if, on your vacations, you’re more excited to work because you won’t be interrupted. — Alex Hormozi
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin
Short Going On Vacation Quotes
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J. B. Priestley
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson
This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance. — Khandi Alexander
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. — Henny Youngman
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca
I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer. — Fisher Stevens
Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. — Richard Francis Burton
Looking forward to holidays takes the joy out of everyday. — Naval Ravikant
I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows. — Mariah Carey
Going On Vacation Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Off To Vacation Quotes
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation. — Christian Slater
When I feel burned out, usually that means I have to take a night off or get a 10-hour sleep for a night to recover. — Sam Bankman-Fried
I've seen a total eclipse from every continent - including Antarctica. And it's been a wonderful way to see the world. The eclipses take you to really unusual, off-beat places that you might not normally plan a vacation to, but they're wonderful places to go. — Fred Espenak
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
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
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
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
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
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
If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.' — Jurgen Klinsmann
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off. — Neil Gaiman
It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being vacated. These are the elections that actually impact the way we live oftentimes more than the President. So we have to pay attention to those things as well. — Aldis Hodge
Have Fun Vacation Quotes
At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and its more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. Its a lot more fun now with the family. — Dave Lombardo
I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something. — Paul Theroux
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
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Relaxing, going on vacation, sleeping, having fun when I want, golfing when I want, do whatever I want - I am going to enjoy it. — Landon Donovan
Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it. — Karen Karbo
I think vacations are mostly completely stupid. Going to have coffee with a friend, you're probably going to have more fun than if you go to Aruba. — Jerry Seinfeld
Going On Holiday Quotes
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it. — Julie Delpy
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy. — Ivana Trump
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. — Al Sharpton
Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state. — Samantha Bee
The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days. — Louie Giglio
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time. — William Shatner
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life. — Brian Clough
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
Need A Vacation Quotes
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
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life. — Tommy Lasorda
I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all. — Freddy Adu
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. — Raymond Chandler
Set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin
Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. — Jerry Smith
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. — Elbert Hubbard
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do. — Bill Murray
We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy. — Richard Branson
I need a six month vacation twice a year. — Pete MacArthur
Long Vacation Quotes
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
My dad and brother, are my favourite people to go for with on long drives. The Sangli roads are quite empty and perfect for long drives. — Smriti Mandhana
Travelers are an enthusiastic lot. They do not mind any inconvenience as long as they have something to see. — R.K. Narayan
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. — Jonathan Clements
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities. — Shirley Jackson
When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time. — Giorgio Armani
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp. — Ingrid Weir
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes. — Pola Negri
Vacation Quotes
My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation. — Kendrick Lamar
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation. — Sayings
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there. — Bob Newhart
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs. — Erika Slezak
Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. — Mark Twain
So I have no time for short-term things: dinners with people I won’t see again, tedious ceremonies to please tedious people, traveling to places that I wouldn’t go to on vacation. — Naval Ravikant
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. — Robert Teeter
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. — Leo Tolstoy
I wanted to be my own boss and God knows I wanted to travel. — Cliff Lerner
Family Vacation Quotes
I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family. — Tony Stewart
Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time. — Bill Gates
I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family. — Wolfgang Puck
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it. — Marcelene Cox
Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job. — Hamilton Leithauser
The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick. — Marni Jackson
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
Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting. — Janeane Garofalo
My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great. — Christopher Gorham
In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state. — Huey Lewis
Vacation Time Quotes
Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package. — Chris Voss
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace. — Ellen Goodman
It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time. — David Brenner
Travel brings power and love back into your life. — Rumi
In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar
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
Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation. — Simone Biles
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation. — Zig Ziglar
There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations. — Stan Lee
Going Abroad Quotes
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go. — A. B. Simpson
How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college? Why do you keep voting for these guys? — Bernie Sanders
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about. — Tucker Carlson
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. — Henry David Thoreau
Once a year go someplace you've never been. — Dalai Lama
My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash. — Zach Anner
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro. — James Howell
I thought I would be at United for a couple of years, maybe three or four, and then go abroad somewhere. But I just fell in love with Manchester United. I fell in love with winning, fell in love with the history of the club and being part of it was something I could never have imagined. — Rio Ferdinand
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
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
Find what brings you joy and go there. — Jan Phillips
Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me. — John Frusciante
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation. — James Ellroy
Whenever I go on vacation I like to change up my hair - I'll braid it or get dreads - but my favorite is just keeping it short and curly. — Herieth Paul
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil. — Jeff Bezos
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
The problem with the law is that it's always there. There wasn't a vacation I took over the nine years I practiced - this was back in the dark ages - when I wasn't having faxes and FedExs literally sent to me on the beach in the Caribbean. I used to go on cruises not because I liked cruises, but because it was the one spot they couldn't get you. — Megyn Kelly
Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology. — Larry Sultan
I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing. — Georges St-Pierre
I find that if I go on a vacation, it's like that's more stress to me, because I want to get back. — Donald Trump
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
Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want. — Laura Schlessinger
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
I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation. — Erin Cummings
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper. — Ben Ames Williams
Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving. — Stacy Keibler
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. — Peter S. Beagle
I remember going on vacation for two weeks once and one of my clients who was very clinically depressed really could not handle it, really unraveled himself. That scared me. I didn't want to be in that position. — Kelly Carlin-McCall
As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how: by going on vacation! Ah, it's nice to take a rest, replenish your supply of smirks. The vacation was expected, because Bush traditionally takes a month off every summer to relax and avoid reading National Security Warnings. — Craig Kilborn
I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time. — Matt Damon
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
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. — Thich Nhat Hanh
My first stage was couture. Boom. Couture. It has changed because women have evolved. Back in the day there were princesses. Today, there are still princesses, but she no longer rides around with horses and a carriage. She parties, she goes on vacation, she goes on boats. She wants to be dynamic. I understood this and I kept going. We do prêt-à-porter, men's, and couture. — Riccardo Tisci
Most of the time I'm by myself finding the next thing. Being an A&R guy, basically. I don't know how long I can do this for. I'm constantly fascinated by actors who are so confident with their career that they do a project and then go on vacation. — Robert Pattinson
I love Donnie Darko movie so much. Just before I got that script, I had been to see some European art film. I walked out of that movie and said to my husband, "That's what I want to do! I want to do an art film and take it to the edge." Within two weeks, we were getting ready to go on vacation, and my agent called. — Beth Grant
Instead of going on a beach vacation to Hawaii, you could go to a Democratic convention, a state convention, a conference being held to discuss issues you care about, or even go hear a politician speak. Soon your life is all about government and politics and you delve into issues and public policy. When you do that, not only do you learn to be a good candidate for office, but you also learn to be a good elected official. — Maxine Waters
If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I think the best solution sometimes to working out a problem is to walk squarely away from it. — David Small
When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing. — Georges St-Pierre
My first film I made, "Permanent Vacation," we shot in 1979 for like $12,000, part of which I got a fake car loan for that Amos Poe told me you could do that. And, yeah, I had no idea what I was doing. It was just like, well, we're going to try and do this. Partly because I had been following Amos Poe and Eric Mitchell around for about a year, and I worked on some of Eric's films as a sound recordist and stuff. — Jim Jarmusch
I see what those people [veterans] are going through. To see a doctor, sometimes it takes six and seven days and then you finally get there and the doctor is gone on vacation. — Donald Trump
History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational. — Scott D. Anthony
Between the redwoods, growing up and enjoying nature, camping on almost every vacation, and getting to go to summer camp in the Adirondacks, it was really very apparent to me that we had to preserve what we had on the earth. — Bonnie Raitt
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