When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

On holiday, I don't want any plans or structure. If I want to wake up at lunchtime or have breakfast for dinner, then I will.

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

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

I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never write a story about Indianapolis.

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.

Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

I'm a very early riser on holiday. I am invariably down at the pool on a sun lounger even before anyone can put a towel on one.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

After Pride, Christmas is a drag queen's next best holiday. It's pretty gay, full of tinsel and glitter and finery and campness.

Of all the quirky, inexplicable, reindeer-embellished holiday traditions out there, making your own Yule log might take the cake.

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

I wanted to create clothes that my friends and I can wear throughout the seasons. We wear Rouje in Paris, on holiday, or at work.

Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?

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.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

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.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

The joke may be that no one likes fruitcake, but if that were the case, they wouldn't appear on store shelves every holiday season!

I am not crazy about bags or watches. For me, anywhere I go for a holiday or for work, the first thing that I go and buy are shoes.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

I feel so proud of everything I have achieved and it is lovely that my soundtracks take people back to their first love or holiday.

I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

Jaipur is my mother's hometown. So, every summer vacation, we would come to Jaipur and spend the entire holiday at my nani's house.

I wouldn't like to say that I spend most of my time on holiday, but I have done a lot of traveling and have been to a lot of places.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.

I bought my mum a car, and I bought my brother one of those hoverboards for Christmas, and I bought my family a holiday to Australia.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there.

Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

'Kris Kringle' is a holiday musical for a new generation - a gorgeous score paired with a heartwarming tale of family and forgiveness.

Holiday shopping can be tough: sometimes you don't know what to get a person; sometimes you really do just want to help those in need.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

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