Simon Armitage Quotes

As much as we adore what we do and we're eternally grateful, everyone needs a break sometimes. Everyone needs a few days just to breathe.

A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

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.

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.

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

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

Days off always help. Even if people don't like it when they give you a day off, you've got to take a day off because sometimes you've got to clear your mind.

Like every normal working person, you get tired and need time out.

The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

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

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

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

Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

Giving a break to yourself and the audience, once in a while, is good.