Quotes About Vacation

When I was a teenager, we used to go to North Carolina with my family, and we'd all pile into, like, a beach house. We'd rent, like, two or three next to each other, because I have a humungous family.

It had been a delightful vacation, eight long turns in the foothills at Swift's Climb mountain resort.

Elite production without quiet vacation causes lasting depletion. Rest and recovery isn't a luxury for anyone committed to mastery—it's a necessity.

Sentì le giornate gelide o soffocanti - il sole che ti riscalda troppo, interrotto da un colpo di vento che ti rinfresca troppo. Solo chi ci viene in vacanza può credere che qui il clima sia dolce. Se così fosse, anche la gente lo sarebbe. Invece sono maledettamente lunatici - cambiano d'umore bruscamente, per la nuvola d'una frase o di una diffidenza.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

The soma tablets within reach of her hand -- there she remained, and yet wasn't there at all, was all the time away, infinitely far away, on holiday.

Seguí alí, y sin embargo no estaba allí; estaba siempre lejos, infinitamente lejos, de vacaciones; de vacaciones en algún otro mundo, donde la música de la radio era un laberinto de sonoros colores, un laberinto resbaladizo, palpitante que guiaba (y por qué hermosos e inevitables rodeos) a un brillante centro de certidumbre absoluta...

Uno puede tomarse unas vacaciones de la realidad siempre que se le antoje, y volver de las mismas sin siquiera un dolor de cabeza o una mitología

Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.

There's nothing like a mission to save the world to liven up a vacation.

If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

I hope the teacher doesn't say, 'Write an essay about your summer vacation.' If she does, I'll leave the paper blank. Else I'll have to lie. Say eviction is the best vacation. Hearing Ma weeping and Pa wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier, double-time, and Ray holds my hand. I never lie. I won't. It's better to keep quiet.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories save you.

The Enterprise value proposition is based on a simple insight: renting a car meets different needs at different times. Hertz and its followers in the industry built their business around travelers, people away from home on business or on vacation. Enterprise recognized that a sizeable minority of rentals, roughly 40 to 45 percent, occur in the renter's home city. If your car is stolen, for example, or damaged in an accident, you'll need a rental.

but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day.

Alice nodded in vague agreement, but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day. She thought, But we don't know any of these people. I don't know you. We're all strangers.

Many artists find that a forced separation from their studio caused by events like sickness, vacation, or a move makes it hard to begin again.

Avant-hier soir, en me couchant : si S. est venu souvent ces derniers temps, ce n'est pas à cause de son départ, mais parce qu'une « autre maîtresse » était en vacances. Pensée aussitôt glaçante, qui remet tout en cause. Elle ne réussit pas, cependant, à devenir certitude, comme d'autres, parfois.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

The Missouri of his childhood was theoretically the inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A., though only in its halcyon summer vacation months and stripped of any dismal memories: no blizzards, no doctor's office, and no school-house. Almost no one has a dismal experience in Walt Disney's America, as a matter of fact, at least not that Walt noticed.