Travel Quotes - Page 29

• Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, Airplane, Lasts

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• Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Years, World, Shifting

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• He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

  Jules Verne

  Spirit

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.6, Jules Verne

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• The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

  Freya Stark

  Sea, Silence, Mountain

  1948 Perseus in the Wind.

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• Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

  Socrates

  Doe, Helping, Wonder

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• One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Light, Hands, Goes On

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• When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

  Lady Gaga

  Littles, Possession

  "Lady Gaga lives the simple life" by Lauren Parvizi, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2010.

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• The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

  Adam Carolla

  Knowing, Car, Choices

  "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.

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• [Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Flames, Sides

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• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Growing Up, Reading, Fiction

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• You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

  Willi Unsoeld

  Nature, Sight, Climbing

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• The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Eye, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

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• It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Home, Skills, Breakfast

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Journey, Men, Tourism

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

  Mary Oliver

  Home, Way, Climbs

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Literature, Ifs

  Bertolt Brecht (1961). “Parables for the theatre: Two plays: The good woman of Setzuan and The caucasian chalk circle”

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• They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sky, Dying, Comfort

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.

  Iggy Pop

  Stars, Glasses, Sky

  Song: The Passenger

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Stronger, Bovine, Agoraphobia

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• I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Heart, Mind, Way

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• Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Train

  "The Red House Mystery and Other Novels".

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• Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

  Phillip Phillips

  Home, Causes, Wave

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• You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Journey, Mind

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.548, Tor Science Fiction

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• As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Hair, Sticks

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• Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

  Al Stewart

  Land, Long, Church

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