Vacation Quotes - Page 5

• Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

  Pete Rose

  October, Bigs, Raises

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• It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

  Celine Dion

  Vegas, Strange, Coming Back

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• In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

  Marguerite Duras

  Blessing, Boredom

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• When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

  Peg Bracken

  Forever, Littles, Little Time

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• 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

  Holiday, Leaving, Trying

  "Stacy Keibler’s Sexy And Speedy Beauty Look". Interview with Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  Oksana Baiul

  Beach, People, Water

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• The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.

  Tom Welling

  Ideas, Perfect, Appointments

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• Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Jobs, Fun, Best Job

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

  John Green

  Home, Pudge, Scared

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.65, Penguin

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• I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Comic, Souvenirs

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Mar 15, 2012

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• At the end of the season, I normally get some time off training and can go on vacation and enjoy myself.

  Usain Bolt

  Training, Goes On, Ends

  "Usain Bolt Reveals His Fantasy Relay Team & When He’s Hanging up His Spikes". Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. August 15, 2016.

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• 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

  Fun, Hate, People

  "'I Hate Vacations'". Interview with Andrew McCarthy, www.theatlantic.com. September 2013.

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• There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.

  Craig Groeschel

  Dream, Home, Essence

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• 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, Air, Santa Barbara

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• I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

  Scott Adams

  Three, Not Happy, Hours

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Men, Two

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• 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

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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• Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

  Gayle Forman

  Special, Hey, Good Times

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.109, Penguin

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• What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.

  Nina Turner

  Hard Work, Kids, Long

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

  Ted Trueblood

  Running, Opportunity, Fishing

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• Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pleasure Seeking, Relax, Inability

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• Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Air, Hiking

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• I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks. ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself.

  Bill Murray

  Couple, Real, Phones

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

  Rex Stout

  Children, Book, Sleep

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• When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida to go on vacation, you had to plan to drive all the way through, because you couldn't stop in a hotel all the way through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We can't even fathom such a thing now, can we?

  Wayne Dyer

  School, Black, Hotel

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