Vacation Mode Quotes

I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.

Our home in Dubai is a beach house, so it's more casual and not formal in its tone. It's a holiday home. We are mostly in the pool or on the beach or in the sun. It's an outdoor place for the family. So there are mudbikes, a boat, football posts, and the pool is heated.

I'm tanned from head to toe, and it looks like I've been in The Bahamas.

New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.

Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

I work hard to get the body right, and then I kind of just go off the map when on vacation.

I love an elasticated waistband on holiday. I look like the before photo of a makeover. I don't care and no one can see me.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

My whole life is a vacation.

I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I'm at work.

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

I'll be in #‎ Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that.

I am a summer person.

I've been really into a light, bright playfulness that's been missing. I looked at these '60s and '70s photos of Jackie O. She went to Capri every summer, but she was always a little more playful, a little more colorful, than she was in 'normal' life. And it was exciting to see her a little bit "off duty." The colors are from awning stripe umbrellas, from a really clear ocean, and from ripe citrus.

At home, we live on the beach, and it's like every day is a date.

I keep telling everybody that touring has now become my normal life and that normal life is like a very odd vacation.

Being home is like a vacation to me, so I'm trying to get my home together.