Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."

Agnes Repplier

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

Agnes Repplier

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Agnes Repplier

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

Agnes Repplier

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Agnes Repplier

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

Agnes Repplier

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Agnes Repplier

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

Alan Turing

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Carlos Castaneda

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

Janice Dickinson

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

Al Pacino

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

Eckhart Tolle

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Ashley Greene

I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!

Arthur C. Brooks

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Brad Pitt

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Jamie Farr

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Ben Katchor

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

Peter Murray

Goats wouldn't have seen a tiger from an evolutionary point of view for at least 15 generations but they recognize the smell of the predator.

Paul Mooney

A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.

Greg Gutfeld

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

John Scalzi

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

Stephen Black

Slaughtering goats in a subdivision is not appropriate, we know that, but a lot of our newcomers don't know that.

James Joyce

Redheaded women buck like goats.

Amy Smith

And I married into goats when I married him!

James St. James

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.