Travel Quotes - Page 31

• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  Tahir Shah

  Opposites, Cities, India

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.161, Lulu.com

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• Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Texas, Sound

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• I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

  John Ashbery

  Mad, Jack O Lanterns, Wisconsin

  "Puff Piece". www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

  Otis Redding

  Loneliness, Home, Two

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• In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sky, Water, Earth

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes. They say Spain is pretty though I've never been, well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen. And he should know, he's been there enough. Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much.

  Elton John

  Goodbye, Eye, Clouds

  Song: Daniel My Brother

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• You are what you inhabit.

  Lawrence Millman

  Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

  Tahir Shah

  Hygiene, Senses, Wet

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• The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

  Rosita Forbes

  Feet, Atlas, Leviathan

  Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

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• It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Dragons, Wind, Names

  "Starting at Zero".

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• Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Fall, Home, Thinking

  Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

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• There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

  Dave Eggers

  Baby, Drudgery

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• You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

  Harry Chapin

  Home, Sky, Flying

  Song: Taxi, 1972

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Fall, Talking, Feet

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

  Geert Hofstede

  Southern Italy, People, Climate

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• Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

  Donald Richie

  Japan, Together, Wasting Time

  Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Holiday, Long Ago, West Coast

  Song: Holiday Road

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• Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Dream, Ocean

  "Song: "A Pirate Looks At Forty" ("A1A ")". December 1974.

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• 'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

  Bruce Chatwin

  Country, Yugoslavia, World

  "Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989".

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Night, Flames, Blood

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Want, Hell, Peru

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Sunflower”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

  Socrates

  Wonder

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• You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

  Katy Perry

  Falling In Love, Party, World

  Song: California Girls

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• No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

  Jack Kerouac

  Successful, Matter, Change Your Thoughts

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!

  Edgar Winter

  Confused, Hands, Land

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