Quotes About Culture

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess's playground

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

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.

There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.