Quotes About Travel

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

I used to go to Savannah all the time as a teenager, and we've got some friends down in Valdosta, so I feel like I've got a good base of support.

As a teenager, I used to travel everywhere with my guitar. I appreciated the fact it was with me, but it was always an absolute pain to carry around - even though, in those days, you could take in on a plane as hand luggage.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.

I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.

There must be something about me and teeth when I'm filming abroad, I don't have a lot of luck.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

When I'm on tour I just ring up the theatres, book it and go on. You can pretty much go on tour when you want but you can't just make a telly show when you want.

There's so much to see and do in Austrailia, but a lot of it is outside so I've ben immersing myself in their telly.

One thing I love and miss when I'm on the road is company when sitting in front of the box. I love watching telly with my fella.

I have been to Tirupathi more than I have ever been to my grandpa's place. Every Telugu is a Tirupathi guy!

I'm not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I'm never home. I'm constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I'm, like, self-obsessed. I'm irritable, self-absorbed.

The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.

Whenever I can snatch two-three days, I get into the car or a train and head straight for a temple site, mostly Brihadishvara Temple.

Like serious reading itself, travel has now become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.

She had rode all morning

news when she got to her rental but then one

really have to go if we're going to keep that reservation." Tracy handed her overnight bag

her speedometer

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.