Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Ellison

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Rachel Stevens

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything good is on the highway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel is a fools paradise.

Lin Yutang

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Lenny Kravitz

So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way?

Terry Brooks

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Ted Allen

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Lewis Mumford

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Lawrence Block

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Lawrence Durrell

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

Lawrence Durrell

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Kylie Minogue

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

Marc Jacobs

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

Marc Cohn

Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

Samuel Johnson

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

Samuel Johnson

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

Samuel Johnson

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Samuel Johnson

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Samuel Johnson

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Ryan Adams

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

Roy Ayers

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

Robert Hughes

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.