Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Bob Dylan

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Bob Dylan

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Bob Dylan

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Billy Connolly

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

Bruce Dern

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

Brigitte Bardot

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Brendan Fraser

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Brad Pitt

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Blaise Pascal

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Coco Chanel

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

Elizabeth Hardwick

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to ...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Ashley Montagu

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

Oh, yeah, it's right here, from that play. I thought it was (a foul). He (ref) kind of hesitated, then made the travel call.

Bruce Chatwin

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Bruce Cockburn

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the ones that aren't certain. One of those is where you'll find me 'Til they drop the big curtain.

Barbara Kingsolver

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Augustus Hare

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Art Buchwald

As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.

Art Buchwald

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

Charles Bukowski

I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Aristotle

Adventure is worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.