Holiday Quotes - Page 17

• Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

  Daniel Handler

  Funny Work, Talking, Labor Day

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• The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Boys, Blessing

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.294

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• "If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Selling, Trading

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• Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Vacation

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• This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

  Shana Alexander

  Love, Vacation, Astonishment

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Sea, Salt

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• I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

  Paul McCartney

  Two, Goes On, Able

  "Sir Paul McCartney 'Had Phone Hacked'". www.telegraph.co.uk. December 03, 2011.

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• The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fda, People

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• I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

  Jason Clarke

  Family And Friends, Want, My Family

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

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• I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Lucky, Needs, Location

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• Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons — for money, or for fame. I hope I won't ever do that. I don't feel at home in L.A., I feel like I'm on holiday. It's nice to dip your feet in occasionally, but I think it's probably quite unhealthy to spend too much time there at once.

  Andrew Garfield

  Nice, Home, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Pjs, Guitar, Way

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• I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.

  Jennifer Beals

  Yesterday, Confusing, Remember

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• I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

  Kenny Baker

  Ice, Skating, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Airport Cars UK are always helpful and on time when we go on holiday. They have also done themselves proud with the executive people carriers at my sister-in-law's wedding

  Shane Richie

  Sister In Law, Airports, Car

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• Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan

  Phil Thompson

  Summer, Player, Japan

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• Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.

  Martha Stewart

  Blessed, Thinking, Differences

  "Martha Stewart Openly Mocks Gwyneth Paltrow With ‘Conscious Coupling’ Story In Her Magazine" by Kristen Aiken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Play, Effort, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

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• Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

  Leonard Feather

  Voice, Soul, Intensity

  "From Satchmo To Miles". Book by Leonard Feather, p. 84, 1987.

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• Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Firsts, Suits

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.217

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• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

  Willa Cather

  Christmas, Song, Memories

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from
  prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baseball, Dream, Bats

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• The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

  Auberon Waugh

  Law, Suffering, May

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• I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Revelations, Great Confidence

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

  Cornel West

  America, Our Society, Eugene O Neill

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