Quotes About Travel

Matt rested his head against the bus window, the vibration working like a strange massage.

The plane slowed as it approached the gate. The pilot asked everybody to stay in their seats with their belts fastened. Almost everybody ignored that request. You could hear the belts clack open. Why? What did people gain from that extra second? Was it that we just liked to defy rules? He

His cologne smelled like too many European businessmen jammed into a morning elevator.

It'll be great," she continued, forcing pseudojocularity into the cautious tone. "I'll fly home on weekends. Or you can fly out here sometimes. Say, you can do some recruiting out here, nab some West Coast clients. It'll be great." Silence.

When you live in New York, you often have the feeling that New York's not the world. I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Maycomb it's like leaving the world.

Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.

wondered where Dill was. Jean Louise would know, she kept in touch. "Honey, where's Dill?" Jean Louise opened her eyes. "Italy, last time I heard.

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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn't see it, and after a while, you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct.

And you came to Finland to build a station? No I came here on vacation to visit a friend. That's good, the driver said. Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.

Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.

Because they travelled together, they developed intimacy. This was something other orphans didn't have. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.

The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to. That works well for tax purposes, writing into my stories the places I've actually visited.

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.

'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.

The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.