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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.”

People Realizing Insane Vacation Great Writers

Author:Maeve Binchy

“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.”

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.”

Mind Clouds Vacation Living On

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“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.”

Knows Firsts Higher Standards Germany Vacation Assistance Caution Greece Standards Of Living Populism High Prices

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.”

Giving Looks Simple Focus Sadness Vacation Simple Things Deep Inside

Author:Larry Norman

“Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.”

Home Bigs Perfect Relax Vacation Florida

Author:Hilary Rhoda

“When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.”

Kind I Can States Stuff Can Do Train Busy All Kinds Vacation Keep Busy

Author:Vince McMahon

“A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.”

Two Pleasure Thirds Forgotten Remembered Vacation Aggravation

Author:Robert Breault

“Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.”

Pleasure Prove Vacation Overrated

Author:Mason Cooley

“I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.”

Knows Feels Whole Enjoy Week Enjoyment Vacation Occasional Days Off

Book:The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

“I'll be in #‎ Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that.”

Want Film Directors Photography Vacation Hunting Locks Location

Author:Pooja Bhatt

“I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.”

Want Goes On Vote Disagree Vacation November Misguided

Author:Sean Hannity

“Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.”

Secret Vacation Vocation Secret To Success

Author:Mark Twain

“I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.”

Hate I Hate Vacation

Author:David Mamet

“Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.”

Want Kids Moving Vacation

Author:Jim Harrison

“Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.”

Littles Long Able Stars Enjoy Term Worry Tomorrow Taxes Financial Dues Income Long Term Contracts Vacation

Author:Pola Negri

“My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.”

Ideas Home Rivers Staying Vacation Floating

Author:Tim Cahill

“New York is like a vacation - no beach required.”

New York Beach Vacation

Author:Sean William Scott

“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get 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.”

Ifs Want Love Life Inspirational Giving Two Would Be Week Perspective Amount Standards Reflection Busy Vacation Two Weeks Procession Vacation Time Busy Day Aimless Life

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.”

Thinking Needs Years Kind Matter Kids Able Week Wind Mom Available Planning Relax Maps Vacation Just Being Multi Tasking Time To Relax

Author:Vanessa L. Williams

“Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.”

Earth Danger Planets Sight Yeah Despite Vacation Imaginary Mars Coming Back Discomfort Solar System Love Coming Back

Author:Greg Bear

“There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.”

People Ifs World Feels House Understanding Interesting Car Bigger Partners Boss Vacation

Author:Joko Beck

“My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.”

Ocean My Favorite Vacation Favorite Places

Author:Nina Arianda

“I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.”

Years Feelings Remember Night Fun Tired Dinner Flying Holiday Routine Weekend Vacation Personal Life Salad

Author:Carol Alt

“I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.”

Knows Needs Might Speak Numbers Huge Lessons Excited Spots Vacation Speak English Monaco

Author:Freddy Adu

“My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Next Company Teacher Summer Theatre Two Years Vacation Auditions Touring Pantomime Summer Vacation Troupe Professional Work

Author:Didi Conn

“I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.”

Way Found Easy Born Labor Grateful Lakes Vacation Documentaries Delivery Midwife

Author:Sarah Wayne Callies

“I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.”

Wells Children Enough School Used Parent Teach Summer Vacation Delighted Private School Summer Vacation

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.”

Firsts Bigs Jobs Remember Memories Our Lives Happened Events Summer Paris Relative Weekend Vacation Our Memories

Author:Joshua Foer

“I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.”

Way Writing Shows Song Found Animal Forever Groups Singing Starting Track Kitchen My Sister Vacation Bedroom Cleaning Cousin Writing Songs My Cousin Karaoke Stuffed Animal

Author:Kina Grannis

“I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.”

World Want Forget Depends Flight Vacation Good Reads Forget The World

Author:Jeff Abbott

“I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.”

Knows Long Hard Months Breaths Vacation Outer Space Long Vacation

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.”

Thinking Years Years Ago Careful Vacation Be Careful Shells Hawaii

Author:Joshua Homme

“I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.”

Trying Bigs Remember Wind My Family Scripts Dry Pool Vacation Auditions

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.”

Firsts Home Wounds Disaster Iron Vacation Magnet Bruises Cork Pineapples Cleavage Jellyfish Puncture First Anniversary

Author:Molly Harper

“I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.”

Years Made Lasts Film Given Mistake Degrees Permanent Features Vacation Last Year Fellowship Scholarship Made A Mistake Thesis Mayer

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I don't take vacations.”

Vacation

Author:Naomi Judd

“I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.”

World Feels Sometimes Like You Islands Vacation Florida Surreal Another World Weird Places

Author:Jemima Kirke

“I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.”

Stories Vacation Again And Again

Author:Bill Kurtis

“All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.”

World Littles Moments Remember Taken Appreciate Vacation Relaxed Remember When Other Worlds Little Moments

Author:Bill Kurtis

“I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.”

Thinking Way Done Next Unions Criminals Japan Keep Going Vacation Crew

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.”

Ifs Car Albums Fancy Vacation Schemes Fancy Cars

Author:David Knopfler

“Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.”

Trying Loses Leaving Holiday Pounds Vacation Bumps Cardio Cardiovascular Exercise Going On Vacation

Author:Stacy Keibler

“I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.”

Play Home Golf My Favorite Work Out Tennis Vacation Surfing Surf Always Working

Author:Alexander Ludwig

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