Quotes About Travel

If the Beatles made England swing for the young, then Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs, such as Paul McCartney's 'Live and Let Die,' on the pop charts.

I love Orlando. I'm in Orlando six times a year. I love the theme parks.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. —Dutch proverb

They love that rock. Ever been to Yosemite?" She shook her head.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

you could beach your ship wherever you could find a sandy shore, put up your tent

True, the same visitor concedes, in the city you will also 'see the most beautiful sights on earth'

I tell ya, my wife is never nice. She won a trip to Las Vegas for two. She went twice.

He was the most widely travelled poet of the Renaissance; a man who lost an eye in Morocco, who was exiled to the East for a sword fight, who was destitute in Goa and shipwrecked in the Mekong Delta – he swam ashore clutching his manuscript above his head while his Chinese lover drowned.

Here are two good-humored men, always ready to take coffee and opium, about to take a pleasure trip around the islands together.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.

That's why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.

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

La route est plus large que longue.

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—six weeks, four months, two years—to travel the world on your own terms.

Vagabonding is about looking for adventure in normal life, and normal life within adventure. Vagabonding is an attitude—a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

If in doubt about what to do in a place, just start walking through your new environment. Walk until your day becomes interesting—even if this means wandering out of town and strolling the countryside. Eventually you'll see a scene or meet a person that makes your walk worthwhile. If you get "lost" in the process, just take a bus or taxi to a local landmark and find your way back to your hotel from there.

vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests

Instead—out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need—we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory—a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase the same way we buy clothing and furniture.