Travel Quotes - Page 38

• Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

  Tadao Ando

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Thinking, Airports

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• I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Real

  Twitter post from May 03, 2010

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• Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

  Red Buttons

  Funny, Brother, Air

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• Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Boys, Spain

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2009

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• The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Horse, Honor

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• The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Government

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• Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Funny, Real, Kansas

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• August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Funny, Kings, August

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• Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Worry, Car

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 07, 2010

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• San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, San Francisco, People

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2009

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• Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, People, Needs

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

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• A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Lazy People, Floating

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• Be advised that there is no parking in Europe.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Europe, Parking

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2009

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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Yards, Lines

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• American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

  Tom Hooper

  Class, Age, Culture

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I like to travel by myself.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

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• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  Rachel Johnson

  Heart, Paris, Doubt

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• I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

  Squarepusher

  Roots, Feelings, My Own

  "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.

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• I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

  Hilary Swank

  Smart, Book, Way

  "Famous Celebrities without High School Diploma". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

  Charlize Theron

  Reading, Looks, World

  "My adopted baby is great…I never knew I could live on 4hrs sleep" by Grant Rollings, www.thesun.co.uk. May 15, 2012.

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• I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

  Ella Maillart

  Literature, Language, Wanted

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• I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

  Harry Melling

  Hate, Would Be, Fingers

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• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Ideas, Abortion

  "Cynthia Nixon: Abortion debate's new voice". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2009.

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• When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

  Laurel Lea

  Gas Stations, Looks, Lost

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