Vacation Quotes - Page 18

• A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Wife, Boss

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• Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.

  Diet Eman

  Mother, Father, Lying

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• The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.

  Nick Saban

  Differences, Goes On

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• Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are the only one who doesn't dress nicely. Everybody goes on vacations to a great place and you go to the Jersey shore. It's very hard to do these things without an organized mechanism, but it looks to me like there might be some organized mechanisms.

  Dan Ariely

  Dresses, Looks, Goes On

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.

  Carl Honore

  Air, Shopping, Office

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

  Corey Dillon

  Football, Days Off, Noses

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• I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.

  Jessica Alba

  Girlfriend, Shopping, Paris

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• I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up more money for the British Travel advertising in America. Said he, "Why does any American in his senses spend his vacation in the cold damp of an English summer when he could equally well bask under Italian skies? I can only suppose that your advertising is the answer." Damn right.

  David Ogilvy

  Summer, Italian, Sky

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.

  Dan Ariely

  Hands, Car, House

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!

  Tucker Max

  Confused, Home, Men

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.

  Katy Lederer

  Cute, Believe, Shopping

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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• We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Country, Hate, Teaching

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• If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

  Nancy Duarte

  Thinking, Hands, Two

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• Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Seven Days, Monsters, Week

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• Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Journey

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• My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.

  George Pataki

  Summer, Father, Thinking

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• Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Travel, Rain, Sea

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• That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

  Elon Musk

  Lessons

  "15 brilliant or just plain crazy quotes from eccentric billionaire Elon Musk" by Biz Carson, www.businessinsider.com. June 04, 2016.

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• I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, Stars, Guy

  "Q& A with Anthony Bourdain on food porn, Libya and his move to CNN". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.delcotimes.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  House, Sitting, Goes On

  Source: variety.com

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• Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dark, Perfect, Interesting

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Sarah Palin should not be on vacation. She should be in summer school.

  Bill Maher

  Summer, School, Should

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• Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

  Xavi

  Movie, Summer, Soccer

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• If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

  Coolio

  Military, Bosnia, Ifs

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

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• People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.

  Conan O'Brien

  Florida, People, Tough

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