Travel Quotations | Page 6

Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 hours a day? How hard can it be to keep track of your billable hours? To travel for one night for business? To get a 4-year-old ready for school? To return a few phone calls? To load the dishwasher? To fill out some forms?

If you really want to help make a difference while getting a true travel experience, consider a community-run trip.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

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

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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.

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.

Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

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.

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.

I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

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

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.

When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

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

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

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

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

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

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!