Days Off Quotes - Page 5

• Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.

  Jason F. Wright

  Sunday, Lord, Knows

  Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

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• We need to talk.” “I’m just – Look,” I said, as he took a step toward me. “I’m just going to give Cee Cee a call and maybe we’ll go to the beach or something, because I really … I just need a day off.”Another step toward me. Now he was right in front of me. “Especially,” I said significantly, looking up at him, “from talking. That’s what I especially need a day off from. Talking.” “Fine,” he said. He reached up and cupped my face in both his hands. “We don’t have to talk.”And that’s when he kissed me. On the lips.

  Meg Cabot

  Beach, Hands, Talking

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• I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Hilarious, Food

  "The wit and wisdom of Mariah Carey". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Men, Years

  "25 of Joan Rivers' best jokes". www.cnn.com. September 05, 2014.

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• Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up.

  Richelle Mead

  Sunday, Order, Next

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.167, Penguin

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• Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Icons, Clothes

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

  Lawrence Block

  Morning, Writing, Giving

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• I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

  Richard Neutra

  Morning, Badass, Bad Ass

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• With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.

  Carlos Slim

  Important, Relax, Quality

  "Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of life" by Helen Davidson, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2014.

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• And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Dad, Couple

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• During the hard training phase never be afraid to take a day off. If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest.

  Bruce Fordyce

  Feelings, Doubt, Training

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• I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.

  Marion Jones

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who make up our schedule understand body odor? Don't they understand frizzy hair? ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Elephants, People

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?

  Ned Vizzini

  Mom, Dog, Jealous

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• Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.

  Joshua Ferris

  Sunday, Weekend, Two

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• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

  Bill Gates

  Littles, Twenties, Stills

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• And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

  Thierry Henry

  Games, Watches, Four

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• When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

  John Hughes

  Monday, Ideas, Tuesday

  "John Hughes in Interview". www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Naughty, Might

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Growing, Fields, Boat

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• Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Recovery, Get Over

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.106, Macmillan

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• When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,'" says Plutarch.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Bottles, Able

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• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Home, Hollywood

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• Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

  John Green

  Fighting, Caring, Luxury

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• There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

  Josh Beckett

  Team, Division, Tampa

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