Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn’t take a break from you. – Douglas Coupland
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. – Penelope Cruz
The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it – as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half. – Mark Zandi
Every time I’ve been to Los Angeles, I’ve hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday. – Laurence Fox
Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. – John Clayton
We’re going to do something that’s really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It’s never been done before. – J Allard
I started out Ice skating with ‘Holiday On Ice’ and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. – Kenny Baker
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. – Jill Dando
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday – there’s plenty of time spent in the pub. – Kevin Whately
The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it’s a very family-centered holiday. – Marcus Samuelsson
Corned beef and cabbage – that’s our favorite holiday meal when all the O’ Haras gather around the table. – Kelli O’Hara
The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is… that’s the coolest thing ever. – Robbie Robertson
There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don’t let that deter you. – Raymond Bonner
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
My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me. – Rupert Everett
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.’ – Robbie Robertson
After ‘X Factor,’ I got loads of gigs. Then I went on holiday just after the tour and bought my Rolex in Tenerife. I needed to go through that phase – splurge and see that it’s worthless – to get it out of my system. – Rebecca Ferguson
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland. – Werner Heisenberg
Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains. – Sayed Kashua
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. – Susan Orlean
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I’ve always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet. – Tim Curry