Quotes & anectdotes from
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travel

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

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

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

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

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Travel teaches toleration.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

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

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

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

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.