The U.S. is a long way off from a midday siesta, but like equal pay and paid leave, more vacation wouldn't just be good for employees, it's good for business.
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Quotes tagged ‘vacation’
You look like somebody's demented aunt on vacation!
Taking time off from your usual routine every now and then is great, but I’ve found that when I try to maintain some semblance of wellbeing while on vacation, I end up enjoying the trip even more and coming home feeling actually recharged.
I could use a vacation.
— Robert Funke, Matt Lutsky, Krystal Gill, Kirsten Dunst, imdb.com
Mrs Ari: I want three weeks in the south of France with the children. Ari: Oh my God baby, of course you can go. Mrs Ari: With you. And if you're not home by 2AM, I'm gonna be standing at the gate screaming 'Ari Gold, super agent, forgot his Viagra.'
Thank you so much for bringing me on vacation. Cheers.
— Johannes Roberts, Ernest Riera, Mia, Sophie Nélisse, imdb.com
Don't need no vacation, I need a replacement.
Hey, hey, easy kids. Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes...or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?
Clark: I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. You're gonna have fun, and I'm gonna have fun... We're all gonna have so much fucking fun…
Adam: It's the first day of our vacation, and you haven't been out of the kitchen since five a.m. Barbara: [proudly] I always make the flag cake. Adam: Fifty stars, thirteen stripes. Did you get it right this year?
— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Adam Maitland, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
Santa: [from in the bag] Me on vacation? On Christmas Eve? Barrel: Where are we taking him? Shock: Where? Lock: To Oogie Boogie, of course. There's no where in the whole world more comfortable than that. And Jack said to make him comfortable, didn't he? Barrel, Shock: Yes, he did.
— Caroline Thompson, Tim Burton, Santa Claus (voice), Edward Ivory, imdb.com
I’m not here on vacation, trust me.
— Paul Scheuring, Michael Scofield, Wentworth Miller, imdb.com
Piper Chapman: Are you planning a vacation? Sam Healy: If I were, it would be somewhere you drink rum out of a mini volcano.
Sometimes you just need a break, to a place you love, to get away from everything.
Nobody gets out of the Bermuda Triangle, not even for a vacation. Everyone knows that.
— Paul Rudnick, Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson, Wednesday Addams, imdb.com
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
I am on the train going back to Stieglitz – and in a hurry to get there – I have had four months west and it seems to be all that I needed – It has been like the wind and the sun – there doesn't seem to have been a crack of the waking day or night that wasn’t full – I haven't gained an ounce in weig…
A German goes on vacation to France. He gets to passport control and the woman says, "Occupation?" The man replies, "No, just visiting."
— Slats7, reddit.com
I need a vacation from myself.
Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?