Quotes About Travel

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.

When you're on tour, you know exactly what you're doing and what's required of you. There's a routine.

Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

I don't sit inside the studio all the time. I travel around researching music.

The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.

The list of plane reservations I keep on my phone - it's very, very, very long.

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

It is generally deemed acceptable to shuttle children and adults between London and Somerset every week, but the considered view is that it would be very cruel to do the same with a dog.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Long Way Round' was the first time Ewan and I had done anything like that. We went through Mongolia and Siberia and places like that, so it was very tough.

Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.

I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant.

I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.

I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, 'I don't want them, because I'm sick of flying!'