Quotes About Travel

It was a Temple that could be hauled away in the night by anyone with a two-inch ball on his car bumper

After lunch they looked through some stuff in the garage and found a long narrow cage suitable for Joann to travel in. It had once served as a humane catch-'em-alive mink trap, and in fact no mink had ever entered it, such was its humanity.

Webster Spooner carried my bag upstairs and showed me to my room. He said he would keep an eye on the car. I didn't see how he was going to do that from his box. I knew he was a sound sleeper. The woman Ruth had almost had to kill him to get him awake.

Reading is like a journey to a new place

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind.

The key question of time travel," my father says, "is this: How do we know what it means to perceive an event as presently occurring, rather than as a memory of a past event? How can we tell present from past? And how do we move the infinitesimal window

She brings seven pairs of underwear, two pairs of shoes. She brings an anxious disposition.

if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

De fapt, îmi plac turiÈ™tii, pentru c? oamenii sunt mult mai simpatici în vacan?? decât atunci când bat uÈ™ile birourilor.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions to the current contemporary arts agenda bear a recognizable cultural, or even national, identity.

Five by five they walk down the street of arrivals. It is actually the street of departures but no one knows it. This is a one-way street.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

Homesickness starts with food

I was bypassing the High Sierra—missing Sequoia and Kings Canyon and Yosemite national parks, Tuolumne Meadows and the John Muir and Desolation wildernesses

Oregon. Oregon. Oregon.

he found nothing but a matchbook from a motel in Liberal, Kansas.

Lucas had guessed correctly that there was no danger of anyone hijacking a flight from Oakland to Tucson International, anyway. That would take a real nut.

Two thousand miles to dine on a dish of red herring," he said.

I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there.

I want to see a bit more of New York, even though it's snowing and cold.