Stacey Dooley Quotes

My life is like one little Calgon 'take me away' moment.

I make sure I travel with my girlfriends at least twice a year because that's the time I rejuvenate and disconnect from myself.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

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.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel like it's irresponsible, I think sometimes you really need to take a breather.

I find that if I go on a vacation, it's like that's more stress to me, because I want to get back.

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

I like to work out while I'm away - it's good to clear my head and makes me feel cuter poolside.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.