Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone de Beauvoir

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simon Raven

... life is short and the world is wide

Tom Waits

It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

Stephen Hawking

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Sigmund Freud

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

Shirley MacLaine

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

Shaun White

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.

Rick Riordan

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

Thomas Wolfe

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

Thucydides

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

Robert A. Heinlein

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

Robert Frost

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Robert Benchley

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

Robert Benchley

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

Robert Benchley

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Rita Rudner

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"

Thornton Wilder

Heaven's my destination.

Thornton Wilder

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Thomas Paine

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

Rumi

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

Tasha Alexander

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Steven Morrissey

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Robert Browning

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

Richard Simmons

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

T. S. Eliot

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

Rose Macaulay

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Truman Capote

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Rudyard Kipling

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

Sting

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

Roger Miller

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.