Amy Ziff quote: "Despite terrorist threats, fuel price rises, and a weak dollar, ... Americans feel free to travel again, especially to Europe, where they've been going in increasing numbers."

The two weeks immediately following Thanksgiving are actually the slowest travel times throughout th...
AMY ZIFF

If you can stay an extra day or two, maybe leave a day or two earlier. It'll make your flying experi...
AMY ZIFF

Some travelers are such bargain hunters, ... that if the price is $25 different between Paris and Ro...
AMY ZIFF

Tickets sold for both Thanksgiving and Christmas are ahead of where they were last year, so it looks...
AMY ZIFF

There are three types of travelers. One says after a tragedy like the Madrid bombings, 'I'm just goi...
AMY ZIFF

[Still,] it's never a good idea to store too many frequent flier miles, ... It might be a good time ...
AMY ZIFF

[Travel to off-season destinations. You can save on summer travel by staying at winter resorts.] Man...
AMY ZIFF

[Even with the rising costs, the travel industry is having its best year since before 2001.] Last ye...
AMY ZIFF

Technology has become such an integral part of travelers' lives that many of us find it impossible t...
AMY ZIFF

When it comes to travel, everyone's threshold is different. A $1,000 trip may be less valuable to an...
AMY ZIFF

At 1:25 [p.m.], we picked up sleet and ice pellets. At 3:15 it started to snow again. Now, it's mult...
BOB ZIFF

We were expecting more snow. I would rather deal with 19 inches of snow than this stuff.
BOB ZIFF

This could be the first significant storm in two months. The first potentially, I stress the word po...
BOB ZIFF

Most nor'easters we get generally don't get their act together until they're well past us. So we don...
BOB ZIFF

It looks like the storms are stacked up all the way from here to Japan.
BOB ZIFF

This is what gives you that freeze-dried effect. Ice falling when the temperature suddenly drops, an...
BOB ZIFF

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
SID ZIFF

No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes.
JOHN ZIFF

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE

These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING

I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING

It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING

Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING

Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL

I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER

The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT

We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT

but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT

They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT

All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL

Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT

Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL

Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT

When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA

I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN

I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN

My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN

No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN

God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN

A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS

If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS

Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS

Despite terrorist threats, fuel price rises, and a weak dollar, ... Americans feel free to travel again, especially to Europe, where they've been going in increasing numbers.

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Despite terrorist threats, fuel price rises, and a weak dollar, ... Americans feel free to travel again, especially to Europe, where they've been going in increasing numbers.

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