Quotes About Travel

Grumman twin-engine Goose

I'm positive he turned north into Cowbridge Road, because that's the short cut leading from Route 2 northward and over to U.S. 1. You can see it on the map." "So what? Just because a man

On went the cab, jogging through the open firmament. Stars came towards it, splintering the dim shower-whipped windows with fiery particles of light.

But you don't know the world,' I teased her. 'No, only here, and Jamaica of course, Coulibri, Spanish Town. I don't know the other islands at all. Is the world more beautiful, then?' And how to answer that? 'It's different,' I said.

If the demons lie within they travel with you.

Yet as we travel deeper into the strange world of the story, the feeling we get is of being understood - which is odd when you think about it, because at school learning is based on whether or not we understand what we are reading. In fact it is the story (or the poem) that is understanding us. Books read us back to ourselves.

I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there.

Mom said we should all live near the Pacific Ocean at least once in our lives, so we kept going all the way to San Francisco.

switchbacks, passing walls of limestone and sandstone layered like giant stacks of old papers.

There's the story of a person who does this, does that, but it isn't I, I have nothing in common with him. He travels through countries I know no more about than if I had never been there. Sometimes, in my story, it happens that I pronounce these fine names you read in atlases, Aranjuez or Canterbury. New images are born in me, images such as people create from books who have never travelled. My words are dreams, that is all.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting # intuition guide my way.

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.