Travel Quotes

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

The longer you travel, the less you know.

The Dead travel fast.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

I need a six month vacation twice a year.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.