Travel Quotations | Page 5

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

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

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.

Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I don't want to go anywhere. One time, I got a trip around the world for doing something on television, and the travel agent was so excited, I gave her the tickets.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.

Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

I don't like Miami that much. I don't like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot.

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

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'

On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

I like to travel in jeans because I don't want to wallow around in my suit, you know? They cost too much. Jeans are comfortable.

'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

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

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

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

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.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies.

Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

I love going into a country and just blending.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

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

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

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

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.

The sheeplike nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

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.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.