I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation.
The lefties are on the side of the thugs. They've taken over the universities. I don't think anyone learns anything at college anymore. It's a four-year vacation.
I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.
I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.
I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.
Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe.
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.
My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?
On vacation in Indonesia, I ran out of skin-colored zinc, so I used green, and locals called me Hulk.
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.
I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.