Vacation Quotes - Page 10

• 'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

  Michael Rooker

  Seven Months, Feet, Mountain

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, Machines, Void

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  "La voce di Rimini". September 11, 2003.

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• I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

  Maeve Binchy

  People, Insane, Realizing

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• Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

  John Frusciante

  Jobs, Party, Golf

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• At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Car, Adjectives

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• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  Brennan Manning

  Maturity, Years, Class

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.45, Multnomah

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• I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

  Ric Keller

  Florida, Numbers, World

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• The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

  David Letterman

  Texas, Wind, White

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• My family vacations were softball tournaments.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, My Family, Tournaments

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• I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Heart, Expression, Giving

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• The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.

  Hanna Rosin

  Teacher, Couple, School

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• An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Paper, Sponges, Desks

  Ben Ames Williams (1944). “Leave Her to Heaven”

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• Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Generations, Looks

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• Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.

  Alan Tudyk

  Couple, Views, Years

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I have a very beautiful life with great friends and I look forward to waking up every day. Every day is a vacation but every day is a workday. I don't want to take vacations because music is my life and if I escape from music, that's the same thing as death. So a vacation is death to me. Sitting on the beach for a week is my idea of hell. That would kill me.

  John Zorn

  Beautiful, Beach, Ideas

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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• Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Thinking, Knowing

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• The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Two, Firsts, Endless

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Germany, Firsts, Standards

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• For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Husband, Kids, Years

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.70, Fawcett

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• nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

  Molly Ivins

  Summer, Civilization, Class

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.200, Vintage

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• [On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

  Nora Ephron

  President, Vices, Levels

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