Happyish Holidays Quotes

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence. ~ Malcolm D. Lee

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Make your holidays a conscious season. ~ Sunday Adelaja

On most holidays, you'll find me in Mexico. Actually, on most holidays you won't find me. I'm at a beach, and it's wonderful. ~ Kyrsten Sinema

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!
This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence. ~ Amy Poehler

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers. ~ Erin O'Connor

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . . ~ Lily King

Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays. ~ Donald Sinden

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends. ~ Jason Clarke

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a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays: ~ Thabo Jijana

All holidays can be good times. ~ John Clayton

I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up. ~ Keeley Hawes

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. ~ Berkeley Breathed

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous. ~ James Nesbitt

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays. ~ Kim Kardashian

Manipulative parents have a field day on holidays, spreading guilt as if it were Christmas cheer. ~ Susan Forward

Whatever happens, we always have holidays. ~ To Kill A Dragon

I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays. ~ Frank Lampard

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child. ~ Kevin Whately

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays. ~ Nancy Dunnan

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. ~ Pepper Schwartz

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving. ~ Stacy Keibler

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

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays. ~ Charlie Adam

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. ~ John Carpenter

Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake. ~ Nina Dobrev

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch. ~ Evelyn Glennie

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me. ~ Max Beesley

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. ~ Amy Adams

Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn. ~ Ben Shapiro

I was just thinking about how Christmas is right around the corner, but no matter how you choose to celebrate the holidays, books in general make great gifts! ~ Lauren Graham

For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme. ~ Debi Mazar

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

Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote. ~ Prince

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out. ~ Devon Werkheiser

Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays. ~ John Clayton

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. ~ Anita Diament

I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy. ~ Beth Riesgraf

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia. ~ David O. Selznick

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off. ~ Aasif Mandvi

When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic. ~ Nell Newman

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more. ~ Michael Phelps

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt. ~ Geoffrey Zakarian

The holidays drape us in magic and give us the hope that we can do better than we have done in the past. ~ Toni Sorenson

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline. ~ Godfrey Gao

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist. ~ Ricky Martin

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City. ~ Elaine Stritch

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. ~ Ray Brown

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York. ~ Roger Federer

If you can't find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you'll never find it under a tree. ~ Michael Holbrook

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. ~ Bobby Flay

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays. ~ Blake Lively

I wear a lot more glitter around the holidays, so I'm always wearing different glitter nail polish or fun metallic eye shadow. It's the holidays - everything is more twinkly and celebratory. ~ Blake Lively

We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays. ~ Maeve Binchy

Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage. ~ Simon Hoggart

Relaxation is good, holidays are necessary, but there is nothing as rewarding and healthy as doing what you love and loving what you do. Our honest toil should inspire and satisfy us. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

But you're a naughty girl. Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing. ~ George Eliot

I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time. ~ Bindi Irwin

Have a magnificent holiday! Celebrate as if holidays are a reflection of your dreams, desires, traditions, and values all wrapped in happiness and joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets. ~ Juicy J

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. ~ John Waters

In case anyone would like to know, we have now entered the Christmas season. Christmas as in Jesus Christ. This is not the "happy holidays" season ... Don't "Happy Holidays" me because I will "Merry Christmas" you in return. ~ Lyn Nofziger

We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous. ~ Robert Webb

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head. ~ Jeremy Irons

Christmas has a dark side. It's painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That's the real sparkle in Christmas. ~ Toni Sorenson

An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it. ~ Martin Clunes

The problem is that I hate holidays… I hate the whole idea of it… That for you today is Christmas for me is nothing different than the typical week or weekend. ~ Deyth Banger

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be. ~ Wayne McGregor

Aelin said to Fenrys, "We'll only invite him to Orynth on holidays." "So he can ruin the festivities?" Fenrys scowled. "I, for one, cherish my holidays. I don't need a misanthrope raining on them. ~ Sarah J. Maas

My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone's very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We're all very liberal. ~ Chris Evans

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing. ~ Sania Mirza

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals? ~ Christina Applegate

Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July ... Winding her way through the masses, trying not to get her fragile frame jostled, she realized she preferred it that way. Working on holidays, one wasn't required to have fun. There was no pressure, no disappointments. And she usually had a wonderful time. ~ Nevada Barr

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop. ~ Enid Blyton

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times. ~ Hunter Tylo

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be. ~ Walter F. Mondale

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. ~ Karl Pilkington

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Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym. ~ Rachel Nichols

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn't when I was younger. And then I started auditioning for 'Narnia,' and the first thing when I got the part was go straight to New Zealand, halfway around the world. ~ William Moseley

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah. ~ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

holidays took the poisons out of everyday life. ~ Edna O'Brien

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. ~ Bette Midler

Holidays bring out neediness like nothing else. ~ Lauren Myracle

Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense ~ Jennifer Larmar

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. ~ Jean Baudrillard

We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries. ~ Sorin Cerin

Sysadmins don't take holidays ~ Cory Doctorow

Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays. ~ David Baldacci

I spent a lot of the holidays at Charlie's home in Herefordshire, learning to drive on his ~ Tana French

I am naturally addicted to venery, I have little ambition and am not at all avaricious. Education has further limited my scope. Having been brought up in society, I am impregnated with its laws; not only should I be afraid of taking a holiday from them, I should also feel it painful to try to do so. In a word, I have conscience as well as fear of gaol. Yes, I know it by experience. How often have I tried to take holidays, to get away from myself, my own boring nature, my insufferable mental surroundings! But always without success. ~ Aldous Huxley

Food tastes better when you wear it! ~ Erin Dealey

Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas. ~ Toni Sorenson

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history. ~ Rosamond Lehmann

Working minds do not rest on Workers' Day. ~ Neo Shamon

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new. ~ Mark Haddon