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Quotes About Wander

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There's the special thing that each record can mean a different thing to every person listening to it.
~ Henry Mancini
In an outdoor environment, you need to be more energetic. The attention of the crowd begins to wander - not like an indoor concert where the audience attention is riveted on to the stage.
~ Chris de Burgh
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
~ David Harewood
You start wanting to see a different place every day.
~ Shannon Hoon
You are the traveler, taking this journey. You are the hero, writing this story. When the trickster Pau-Henoa wandered under the earth, what did he find?" "The sun," "Right," said Chessey firmly. "Even the pagans knew: you will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun.
~ Rachel Hartman
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~ Rachel Hauck
I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them.
~ Courtney Barnett
In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.
~ Rebecca Solnit
animals again will wander back a long way, and go through danger and sufferings, to recover their lost identity, in the surroundings that they know.
~ Karen Blixen
That's the worst thing about having chakaare like us around. We just wander off, find someplace you don't know about, and hole up in it and get into all sorts of mischief that you know nothing about. And then we bill you for it. Dreadful." "Dreadful. Is this the kind of thing that CSF might notice?" "Were we to get out of hand, I imagine very senior officers in CSF might need to be reassured, but not by you." "Dreadful. Hypothetically, anyway.
~ Karen Traviss
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
~ Thomas Moore
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
~ John Dryden
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.
~ Joseph Addison
My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.
~ Marie Lloyd
I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The road goes ever on and on
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.
~ George Miller
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
~ William Wordsworth
Don't wait for opportunity in front of a closed door—wander until you find the open one.
~ Debasish Mridha
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
~ William Blake
I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.
~ William Butler Yeats