Travel Quotations | Page 13

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

We set up our schedule earlier in the year to travel and become more comfortable away from Gill Coliseum. Now we're comfortable in both places, home and away.

We use the travel spending numbers to forecast for the visitor spending.

The production of the television feature by the renowned travel journalist was a solid endorsement of Jamaica's tourist industry and an affirmation of the island as a premier destination,

We have reissued our avian influenza travel bulletin and travel advice and we have helped the Indonesians with medications in relation to this and we're in very close contact with Indonesian authorities,

There are a lot of bargains out there. The best advice is pick up a phone and call a travel agent right now, before you lose the opportunity. Some tour operators' products are available up to 24 hours before leaving.

The real issue is, who's in control of my online profile, who can access it, and who's selling it? When I show up at a travel site, do I want them to know who I am and what frequent flyer program I belong to? Yes. When I'm doing research on AIDS because I have a friend in the hospital, do I want that as part of my profile? I don't think so.

There are a lot of factors we didn't deal with before. You can travel halfway around the world and come back in a week. Illnesses that may have taken months to work their way around the globe can now happen in weeks.

We have six home games, and nine of the 11 are against teams from North Carolina. That should make for easy travel for our fans.

The fact is, in the short term, there's going to be a pretty significant impact on travel generally. We have seen a severe drop-off in reservations over the next few days.

We have received an invitation to travel shortly to Russia.

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

There are few things in life which travel in opposite directions,feelings and tears are some of them.

The only pool of young people lies in Saudi Arabia, some of the Middle-East countries, and few African countries. But they are not prepared as Indians are... we travel well; we are accepted globally very well, and that makes India truly a place to source world's workforce.

The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle.

There are some universal rules governing human travel and they can be used to develop a new class of model for the spread of infectious disease.

There is a place in Virginia looking at space travel. Some of the financial backers own large travel agencies. There is big interest in this in the corporate world.

What we're doing is focusing on trying to resolve the issues, trying to resolve what we call freedom of travel disputes that involve U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we're going to keep up that effort.

Yesterday, the focus was very much on grief and trying to do what was necessary for the basic needs of those who were survivors. Today, now they've had a rest, they'll start to think about their travel plans.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

We're asking people to just budget a little more travel time this morning.

We're accustomed to this. I'm just glad we don't have to travel.

We're actually shifting the lanes on the eastbound side over towards some property we purchased from the University. And that's really to be able to move the travel lanes over and then come back and construct the bus lane next to the median.

We really have only a few weeks to finalize bookings for their travel and accommodation.

We didn't want to overtax them with too much travel and wanted them to stick to their workout programs and enjoy the city with their families.

We did between 3,000 and 4,000 room nights in the Phoenix area last year, and our travel department anticipates to increase that by about 30 percent in the coming year.

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. 'As sanitary engineer?' No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

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.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

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

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it?

A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?

My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.

A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!

The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

we are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story....

We've seen a definite increase in clients who just enjoy being in snow country. They've discovered that a resort vacation in the mountains offers a lot of things and that air travel is often a lot cheaper in winter than in summer.

We've seen airfares as low as $179 each way from the East Coast to major European cities for travel between November 1 and March 31, and many hotel deals to match.

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.

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.

To be an important regional player, an airline needs a big local travel market...and Vietnam has major potential.

Today's announcement reaffirms our continued commitment to our passengers to improve the air travel experience.

Upgrading the fiber optic lines and signals will enable us to improve communication with each signal and troubleshoot problems quickly. It also improves our signal coordination so that motorists can travel within the city more efficiently.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.

Tour companies and Thai nationals who want to travel to Nepal (should) increase vigilance and closely monitor the political situation.

To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.

We're doing something other than going out on the ice. We just felt that with our travel schedule and the games that it was getting monotonous, redundant. What we're trying to do is just bring everybody down, regroup and focus. The mental preparation is as big as the physical preparation when you're stepping into this Game 7 scenario.

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

We are coordinating with the other airlines. Unfortunately we don't believe there's enough capacity, on the Delta Shuttle for example, to serve everybody. But we're doing our best to serve as many people as possible, ... What we're doing is we're going to have extra customer service folks at the US Airways terminal at LaGuardia, and additional customer service representatives to help find alternate travel arrangements.

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

What we have today is the departure of the first group ... which is going to travel to Canada.

We are not going to throw that up there as an excuse. I'm not, ... If I could speak for my fellow teammates, I don't think they'll tell you that being on the road and having to travel to practice or being in San Antonio is a distraction. We made mental errors and made mistakes against the Giants in that game. That's how it is. It had nothing to do with Hurricane Katrina.

We are a can-do agency, used to getting it all done even if we have to make some tough decisions. But we are seeing hits in all budget areas, so it's not like there's a whole lot of extra money that we can take for travel planning. We're hoping to get some direction in how to prioritize, given our funding level.

We are really excited about this new system and I think it will be popular among our campers who like to travel a little farther from home, but worry that all the campsites will fill before they arrive.

We're lucky to get to travel as much as we do. We've been blessed to have great weather so far and we have even played through some cold games over at Indiana State (University) where it was around 35 degrees.

We are not about being snobby - we just want everyone to be compatible. Our members are people with large personal networks, frequent travel and highly active socially.

We do get a lot of different, strange phone calls from tour operators and travel agents, wanting to know: Is the drinking water safe, do you have E. coli? It's alarming, because it can spread so quickly, the false information.

When artwork is involved, it's almost assumed that it's going to travel. It's too hot to stay here.

When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'

The dates have been discussed with Ms Ching's family in Canada to help in their arrangements to travel to Australia.

The definition of dating has changed. Activities that people would have called dating in the 1950s, '60s and even the '70s, no longer seem like dates for modern daters. People today, especially young people, travel in groups and hang out in groups. They don't call it dating.