Holiday Quotes - Page 24

• Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

  Quincy Jones

  Moon, Rapper, Names

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• Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.

  Carol Vorderman

  Party, Air, Years

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• I think everybody should see ('The Star Wars Holiday Special') to realize how bad something can be. There are some cool things in there, but it's two hours long, and you could probably cut it down to about two minutes and twelve seconds of cool material. The animated Boba Fett sequence is great, and there's some cool stuff, but overall, the whole format of a variety show in the 'Star Wars' universe is just a train wreck.

  Kyle Newman

  War, Cutting, Thinking

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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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• Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

  Hayley Atwell

  Mean, Sight, Years

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• I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

  Amanda Burton

  Beach, Taken, Home

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• In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Sex, People, Singing

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• Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Homecoming

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.27, Random House

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• Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Giving, Experts

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• And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

  John Milton

  Sunshine, Play, Dancing

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 94

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• Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

  Deb Caletti

  Kids, Parent, Abundance

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• I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

  Markus Zusak

  Home, Doubt, Different

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know.

  Simon Pegg

  Fall, Thinking, Snowboarding

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

  Margaret Beckett

  Passion, Media, Proud

  "Carry on caravanning" by Margaret Beckett, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

  Pico Iyer

  Book, Holy Days, Wish

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• Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

  Aberjhani

  Valentines Day, Eras, Fantasy

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• I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

  James Nesbitt

  Eating, Eating Out, Generous

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

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• Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Horse, Wine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

  Amy Childs

  Beach, Looks, Goes On

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• Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

  Jose Andres

  School, Kids, Long

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  Billy Joel

  Beach, New York, Talking

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday.

  Theophilus London

  Lovers, Wanted

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• My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Sleep, Winter, Wife

  "Alan Titchmarsh: 'I went white-water rafting in Costa Rica... I'm just thankful I stayed afloat'". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 10, 2016.

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• Halloween with kids is top 5 holiday.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Halloween, Kids

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Giving, Want

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