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Quotes About Travel

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.
~ Jimmy Fallon
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
~ James Harrington
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
~ James Cagney
I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man
~ Robert Ripley
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
~ C. S. Forester
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
~ Peter De Vries
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
~ Thomas Fuller
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
~ Jean Shepherd
If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere.
~ Neal Stephenson
Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he will slip on board a battleship and silently kill its entire crew with his bare hands before doing an Olympic-qualifying dive into the bay, punching out a few sharks, climbing back into his kayak and paddling back to Australia for a beer.
~ Neal Stephenson
Get the bicycles.
~ Neal Stephenson
The covers are rugged hand-laid paper of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from living volcanic rock on some island known only to aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast travel bores.
~ Neal Stephenson
Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places?
~ Neal Stephenson
Then, just for a blessed few hours, he had climbed out of that chopper into the high, cold, piney air of Bhutan, and gone for a ramble in the king's Land Rover, and hiked up a misty mountain that had struck him as being straight from a 1970s album cover. And he had done some introspection about the fact that he couldn't even take such a lovely place at face value but only liken it to such pop culture references.
~ Neal Stephenson
The covers are rugged hand-laid paper of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from living volcanic rock on some island known only to aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast travel bores. An
~ Neal Stephenson
Having now experienced all the phases of military existence except for the terminal ones (violent death, court-martial, retirement), he has come to understand the culture for what it is: a system of etiquette within which it becomes possible for groups of men to live together for years, travel to the ends of the earth, and do all kinds of incredibly weird shit without killing each other or completely losing their minds in the process.
~ Neal Stephenson
he has come to understand the culture for what it is: a system of etiquette within which it becomes possible for groups of men to live together for years, travel to the ends of the earth, and do all kinds of incredibly weird shit without killing each other or completely losing their minds in the process.
~ Neal Stephenson
Plane-change maneuvers are expensive.
~ Neal Stephenson
An overnight train ride delivered him to Persia, his 153rd country, where he drank beer for breakfast and began mapping a route home.
~ Neal Thompson
By celebrating weirdness, he made it mainstream, becoming one of the most widely read and influential syndicated cartoonists of his day—and among the best-traveled men in history. More
~ Neal Thompson
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways.
~ Ned Vizzini
adding travel time lost during the pit stop between photon absorption and re-emission, the total trip lasts about a million years. If a photon had a clear path from the Sun's center to its surface, its journey would instead last all of 2.3 seconds.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson