Funny Travel Quotes - Page 12

• I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Travel, Interesting, People

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

  Ivan Lendl

  Christmas, Travel, Weekend

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• When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

  Thornton Wilder

  Travel, Home, Adventure

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• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Travel, Adventure

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 12, (p. 100), 1954.

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• Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  James D. Watson

  Travel, Moving, Adventure

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

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, People, Suffering

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• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, Home, Air

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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Adventure, Usa

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Travel, Adventure, Nuclear

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Travel, Fear

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Feelings, Mind

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

  Helen Keller

  Hard Work, Heart, Doors

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• New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Travel, Adventure, Discovery

  "Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950".

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• Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Change, Travel

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Heart, Cutting

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Travel, Adventure

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• The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Travel, Book

  "Living memories". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Travel, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Nature, Travel

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

  Camino Real block 8 (1953)

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