Quotes About Travel

At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things. But there are no postcards of this. Of life.

Viajar no es algo en lo que eres bueno. Es algo que haces. Como respirar.

Un beso de todo París.

Entonces, dice—. ¿Haces eso a menudo? ¿Seguir adelante? —Quizás. Pero sólo porque viajo mucho. Golpetea con ritmo en el volante, audible sólo para ella. —O quizás viajas mucho porque te permite seguir adelante.

he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.

early and I don't want to get stuck there for the night. I ask Tricia if I can use her

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps out a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herself. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on.

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

ive alwasys said i the cook on the bus i at the beach all the time

William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.

How long the flight took on one of those old prop aircraft on any given day depended on the size of the bugs that hit the windshield and slowed it down.

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records. -- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966

I don't know if this has a moral or not. Maybe it's "Don't sit inside of soap cartons too long - unless you enjoy traveling.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye

We don't want to be stuck on the train with nothing to read.

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia ' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

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.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in some sense her work must begin there, at the rootwad. And wherever she travels she must take that place with her, must feel in the dark of memory for its shape.