Quotes About Travel

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.

The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

Portugal has amazing seafood with all the eyeballs staring back at you.

I love to go to the airports and just put on, like, dark glasses, so nobody can tell I'm staring at them, and just draw people.

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

It's not normal that, when you close your eyes and listen to the news, too often the political back-and-forth in America sounds too much like it does in the kinds of countries that the State Department warns Americans not to travel to.

Most people like to backpack through Europe; I think the States is big enough for you to have an adventure in.

The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.

If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on 'Clocks' on my discman, and I fell in love.