Alice Hoffman Quotes

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

Football is a great place to get away from things, and going over to Greece was amazing and I've loved it - it is basically getting away from all the talk.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

Travelling helps me rejuvenate and de-stress.

When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.

I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

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.

My favorite thing about summer is just the idea of having a little time off to do things for you, whether that be going on a vacation, spending more time with your friends, or going to places you've never been before.

The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

I think holidays come in all sizes - sometimes you just need to relax.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It's a treat to travel without your racket bag.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

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

I always try to have a vacation.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

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.