Quotes About Travel

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings - until they put the key in their front door. Then the wings fold up, and they are home again, as though in the center of an impassable steel ring on the horizon. The moment they close the door behind them, they can no longer imagine they have ever been away.

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

group of tourists passed them. "We came with Amy and Woodrow Watson

She reaches into the backpack she uses for a purse

Today, if you travel the world, everything is the same. If you stay in one spot for a year, however, practically all the women change their hats. We have exchanged the tyranny of place for the tyranny of time.

I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.

Making the journal equal to the journey is simply a matter of shifting your intention: you're no longer traveling and keeping a log on the side, but embarking with a dual purpose.

For my money, this is the highest purpose of journaling. A travelogue enables you to look inward while studying the unfamiliar scenes around you,

A journal is personal travel insurance, protecting your memories from strolling off un-chaperoned, vanishing without a goodbye or backwards glance. This is the driving force behind most people's road journals, and although basic, its importance cannot be overstated. The human memory is feeble and needs all the help it can get.

Procrastination hurts almost any project, but it's murder on a travel journal. First

the trip itself may have so far gone smoothly,

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

It is not uncommon for the cyclist, in the first flush of enthusiasm which quickly follows the unpleasantness of taming the steel steed, to remark, 'Wheeling is just like flying!' This is true in more ways than one.… Both modes of travel are riding upon the air, though in one case a small quantity of air is carried in a bag and in the other the air is unbagged.… To learn to wheel one must learn to balance; to learn to fly one must learn to balance.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke—an ideal travel companion." —Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN)

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

London -- a place you go to get bronchitis.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie.

carrying their suitcases.