Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hamel

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Howard Schultz

I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.

Honore de Balzac

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Ice Cube

I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

Francis Quarles

Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

Ian Holloway

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

Ian Gillan

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

Homer

The journey is its own reward.

Erica Jong

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

Enrique Vila-Matas

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

Elvis Costello

Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.

Jasper Fforde

Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

Jason Mraz

I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

Jason Mraz

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

Jack Ma

Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.

Jack Irons

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

J. C. Watts

Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

Isabel Allende

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.

By writing quotes...I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.

Harry Callahan

Only the journey matters.

Harry Chapin

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Harry Chapin

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

Tom Monaghan

It's a big step. It's been a long journey, and it's very exciting.

Bill Cowher

They love you because you just won seven straight games. It's important that you separate the two, and recognize where you are and the journey that you had, because we're not done with that journey.

It's been an unbelievable journey. To do what we've done is incredible. I don't say it very often, but we're really good.

Michael Campbell

It's been a wonderful journey so far. I just want to ride this rocket as long as I can.

For all the teams that competed, the reward is in the journey that got them here. They learned about designing, engineering and construction -- things that could make them the next explorers of our universe.

Valerie Harper

It's lonely not to have other actors to go with you on the journey.

Lou Reed

Take a walk on the wild side.

Lloyd Alexander

The journey is the treasure.

Madeleine L'Engle

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

Madeleine L'Engle

To be born is to start the journey towards death.