Travel Quotes - Page 37

• A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Past, Years, Retreat

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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• To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sometimes, Speed, Process

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  Week, Lost, Bewildered

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts (2012). “The Great Meadow”, p.102, Hesperus Press

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• O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

  Du Fu

  Grieving, Ancient, Should

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• Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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• I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Rivers, Personality, Grandfather

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• In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

  Paul Theroux

  Upset, Bazaars, Levels

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

  Paul Theroux

  Lines, Vanishing, Oblivion

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.83, Ivy Books

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• Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

  Paul Theroux

  Landscape, Worst, Train

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• World will suffice for me in the future.

  Mary Cassatt

  World

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• Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, Journey, Fit

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

  Wang Wei

  Dream, Night, Miles

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Brother, Men, Thinking

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.

  Will Durst

  Funny, Halloween, San Francisco

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• Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Team, Sixteen, Sanity

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.282, Lulu.com

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• In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

  Sybille Bedford

  Europe, Clothes, Interesting

  Sybille Bedford (1986). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, Plume Books

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Crush, Boredom, Tourists

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Maps, Wheels

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• I travel all the time.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Time Travel

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• There is a land that I can go to
  When I have time to rest.
  All the people I love are there
  And those who love me best.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Land, People, I Can

  Song: Ireland, Album: A Child's Adventure

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• Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Crazy, Too Much, Drink

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• A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Sleep, Night, Long

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• Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

  Glen Hansard

  Long, Sometimes, Nervous

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• I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Jobs, Home, Airports

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