#vacation

His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He had piercing, generic, banal fluorescent lights on his face all the time at work and at University, it was so bad it made him loathe even natural sunlight. Lucky this apartment’s living room light had a dimmer. He flipped open his phone and said hello. ‘Hey Dom, how you doin’?’ a voice boomed. It was Ben. They proceeded to talk about the upcoming exams, which were deceptively close as it was week 10 at the moment. Yes, they would be alright. Yes, they would meet up afterwards. No, he hadn’t studied more than Ben had. As he clapped the phone closed after the genial conversation reached its natural nadir, he had forgotten most of what had been said ↗

— T.P. Grish

#drama #fiction #humor #humour #maldives-malady

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car. ↗

— Ed Abbey

#close #life #looking #nature #noticing

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable. ↗

— Scott Adams

#hours #i #rare #terribly #those

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there. ↗

— Ed Helms

#excitement #familiar #foreign #ground #just

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#come #fell #friend #i #just

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#dinner #doing #everything #keep #marriage

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#come #day #every #every single day #hundreds

We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone. ↗

— Tom Joyner

#five #set #stone #take #those

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation. ↗

— Clint Walker

#dozen #like #vacation #well

There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhanced by surprise. By what privilege, on one morning rather than another, did the window on being uncurtained disclose to my wondering eyes the nymph Glauconome, whose lazy beauty, gently breathing, had the transparence of a vaporous emerald beneath whose surface I could see teeming the ponderable elements that coloured it? She made the sun join in her play, with a smile rendered languorous by an invisible haze which was nought but a space kept vacant about her translucent surface, which, thus curtailed, became more appealing, like those goddesses whom the sculptor carves in relief upon a block of marble, the rest of which he leaves unchiselled. So, in her matchless colour, she invited us out over those rough terrestrial roads, from which, seated beside Mme. de Villeparisis in her barouche, we should see, all day long and without ever reaching it, the coolness of her gentle palpitation. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#vacation #beauty