Quotes About Travel

It struck me, not for the first time, that there seemed to be more places in Australia for tourists to go than there were tourists to fill them. At

In 1956, while passing through customs at Sydney Airport, he was found to be carrying a large and diversified collection of pornographic material, and he was invited to take his sordid continental habits elsewhere. Thus, by one of life's small ironies, he was unable to enjoy, as it were, his own finest erection.

cockneys (which would make it one of the few instances in modern linguistics in which a manner of utterance traveled upward from the lower classes).

From Hurley, Virginia, to Beckley, West Virginia, is eighty-two miles, a little bit less as the crow flies, but you can't get there as the crow flies unless you are a crow.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Rivers are roads which move, [8] and which carry us whither we desire to go.

77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.

We all like motorcycles to some degree.

One more cup of coffee for the road One more cup of coffee 'fore I go. To the valley below.

I don't want to go to Italy no more, I don't want to go nowhere no more. You end up crashing in a private airplane, in the mountains of Tennessee... or Sicily...

It was difficult to understand how China had aggressive travel restrictions within China, and yet did not move to any travel restrictions" for people who wanted to leave China and go abroad, Redfield said. "If there could have been one major, global action that could've really saved hundreds of thousands of lives, it's if they had just shut down their out-of-China travel at the same time they shut down their intra-China travel.

The trains either don't run at all or come so full that it is impossible to get on them.

onto the unpaved dirt road that runs toward the

ridden the Star Ferry from Hong Kong to Kowloon and back, had suffered two hours of rain in Hong Kong's Wanchai District, had gone up and down the Peak Tram, and had arrived at Hong Kong's Jetfoil terminal just in time to catch the last high-speed boat to Macau.

While fame travels slowly, at least notoriety travels fast- Russian proverb

He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.

It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker

We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika hendl, and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.

For the dead travel fast.

I hope you will write occasionally? Some token of your impressions?" "Oh! I shall not spare you. It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends. Expect long descriptions of everything.

Mr. Honeyfoot's post-chaise travelled through a world that seemed to contain a much higher proportion of chill grey sky and a much smaller one of solid comfortable earth than was usually the case.

Todo viajero tiene derecho a desahogar su frustración por la menor contrariedad escribiendo a sus amigos.

What I'm trying to get at,' he says, 'is whether Dr Ketterley persuaded you to go anywhere. Whether he kept you anywhere against your will. Whether you were free to come and go.' 'Yes. I was free. I came and went. I did not remain in one place. I walked for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kilometres.