Quotes About Travel

The GPS spoke in Darth Vader's voice, informing me that my destination was in 500 feet on the right. Saved by the Sith.

Despite extensive travel, we no longer have plagues and epidemics.

caravan of Pack vehicles

About fifteen minutes into the drive, Conlan gave up singing the sad song of his people and fell asleep.

Silently, with no lights on, cars kept coming, one after the other, full to bursting with baggage and furniture, prams and birdcages, packing cases and baskets of clothes, each with a mattress tied firmly to the roof.

Todo aquel que necesita más de una maleta —dijo mientras cerraba con dos vueltas de llave la puerta de su apartamento— es un turista, no un viajero.

Where's your house?' 'Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.

I was asked rather suddenly to join a delegation going to China, early October (alas John couldn't come because of Oxford term). (Another member was David Attenborough, the very nice animal TV man.)

Deep, deepest inside his wounded heart. he felt the new pain, the pain which would now travel with him always.

I am enjoying seeing and learning things here, though I don't 'like' the place in a way. It makes me feel such a decadent sybaritic old European. I leave Yale on Friday, go to Boston, Washington and back to New York – and sail on Nov 4.

How far would I travel To be where you are? How far is the journey From here to a star?

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

Ci sono troppi libri che non ho letto, troppi posti che non ho visto, troppi ricordi che non ho conservato abbastanza a lungo

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

60,000 kilometres per second may be the practical (!) speed limit for space travel

superluminal velocities

different if, somehow, not so much better, than the rougher food of the Elders – disparaging Rossemian weather, referring with an attempt at casualness to the intricacies of space travel.

The Jump remained, and would probably remain forever, the only practical method of travelling between the stars.

Las historias de viaje en el tiempo son demasiado divertidas para ser eliminadas simplemente por consideraciones mundanas sobre impracticabilidad o incluso imposibilidad.

With the blind jumps we took through hyperspace, it's lucky we didn't land up in a sun's belly.

Quieres ver el libro que traigo? -dijo Harlan. - ¿Es posible que lleves esos libros encima? - ¿Por qué no? El viaje en la cabina lleva bastante tiempo. No hay ninguna necesidad de desperdiciarlo.

Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes

Se reunían un par de veces al año en cualquier punto del mapa para vivir unos días de ilusión y regresar luego con el cuerpo agradecido y el alma alborozada.

I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.