Quotes About Travel

Arthur tried to hold her hand to steady her and reassure her, but she wouldn't let him. He held on to his airline hold-all with its tin of Greek olive oil, its towel, its crumpled postcards of Santorini and its other odds and ends. He steadied and reassured that instead.

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

They even laughed a little, though sympathetically, of course. They pointed to the clause in the ticket contract that said that the entities whose lifespans had originated in any of the Plural zones were advised not to travel in hyperspace and did so at their own risk. Everybody, they said, knew that. They tittered slightly and shook their heads.

So a lot of history is now gone for ever. The Campaign for Real Timers claim that just as easy travel eroded the differences between one country and another, and between one world and another, so time travel is now eroding the differences between one age and another. 'The past,' they say, 'is now truly like a foreign country. They do things exactly the same there.

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R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.

How far did we just travel? he said. About ... said Slartibartfast, about two thirds of the way across the Galactic disc, I would say, roughly. Yes, roughly two thirds, I think. It's a strange thing, said Arthur quietly, that the further and faster one travels across the Universe, the more one's position in it seems to be largely immaterial, and one is filled with a profound, or rather emptied of a ... Yes, very strange, said Ford.

The numbers, he said, are awful. He resumed his search. Arthur nodded wisely to himself. After a while he realized that this wasn't getting him anywhere and decided that he would say what? after all. In space travel, repeated Slartibartfast, all the numbers are awful.

Don't panic and carry a towel

People often ask me how they can leave the planet, so I have prepared some brief notes.

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark

And so the point of this story is that when I first met you at the photocopy machine, sure, we talked like a telethon and everything, but the perfume you were wearing then—that perfume was the smell of my stamp album, the smell of countries I always wanted to visit but never thought I'd be able to. It was like you had the world inside you.

I felt like I was walking on an airport's rubber conveyor belt.

The Israelites of Exodus were a people on the go, not a people who had yet arrived at their ultimate destination.

Incidents of Travel

Staten Island ferry

The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The

The body has been made so problematic for women that is has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

Do you know this part of the world well?