Long Weekend Quotes

• Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Friday, Monday, Weekend

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Weekend, Nuts, Long

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

  Zoe Saldana

  Weekend, Going Away, Company

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

  Lois Wyse

  Weekend, Power, Two

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• Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

  Julie Burchill

  Beautiful, Heart, Weekend

  "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

  Emily Giffin

  Children, Weekend, Funny Things

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• 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

  Summer, Home, Holiday

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage

  Anna Kendrick

  Valentines Day, Weekend, Long

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