15 quotes found
“For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of le...”
“Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'”
“I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.”
“I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.”
“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.”
“As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.”
“Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.”
“I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.”
“My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.”
“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.”
“The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activ...”
“The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.”
“We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, eve...”
“I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in th...”
“The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because ...”
