Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Ade

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Gayle Forman

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

Gayle Forman

Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

Gayle Forman

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

Hermann Hesse

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Hermann Hesse

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Hermann Hesse

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Jose Saramago

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Kenneth Grahame

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Kevyn Aucoin

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Jonathan Richman

Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.

Jonathan Raban

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Loretta Young

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

Lord Byron

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

M. F. K. Fisher

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

Loren Eiseley

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Malcolm Gladwell

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

Freya Stark

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Freya Stark

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

Freya Stark

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Northrop Frye

The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

Oscar de la Renta

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Orson Welles

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Norton Juster

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Emilio Estevez

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

Emilio Estevez

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

Ellen DeGeneres

[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.

Emily Blunt

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Emily Dickinson

To shut your eyes is to travel.

Ellis Peters

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Hernando Cortes

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

Hilary Mantel

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.