Holiday Quotes

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.