Quotes About Travel

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

What Dad means by "see" of course, is "drive past at 67 miles per hour." Dad feels it is a foolish waste of valuable vacation time to get out of the car and actually go look at an attraction.

savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude: to play upon crowds is an art; and he alone can plunge, at the expense of humankind, into a debauch of vitality, to whom a fairy has bequeathed in his cradle the love of masks and disguises, the hate of home and the passion of travel.

You have to travel, keep on the move. You have to cross oceans, cities, continents, latitudes. Not to acquire a more informed vision of the world ... but in order to get as near as possible to the worldwide sphere of exchange, to enjoy ubiquity, cosmopolitan extraversion, to escape the illusion of intimacy.

Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere. At home, surrounded by information, by screens, I am no longer anywhere, but rather everywhere in the world at once, in the midst of a universal banality -- a banality that is the same in every country. To arrive in a new city, or in a new language, is suddenly to find oneself here and nowhere else. The body rediscovers how to look.

Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.

Seeing the world is the greatest thing a man can do.

As I travel around the world, I'm realizing that every place I go influences me in some kind of way.

Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.

My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.

Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He's received in different parts of the world. It's a good experience.

I am really happy with the appreciation 'Baahubali' is receiving. Its success proves that if you back the right content, it can travel across the country and the globe.

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

Wherever I go I'm always looking for recipes and ideas.

My recipes aren't classic recipes; they're all fusion recipes inspired by all the places I've been to.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.