Quotes About Travel

As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart.

Any place is grand, long as you got the old do-re-mi in the grouch bag

For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awaking suddenly to find himself sixty or seventy miles from the place where Somnus first visited him: as, we say, although you sit still, Time, poor wretch, keeps perpetually running on, and so must run day and night, with never a pause or a halt of five minutes to get a drink, until his dying day;

If I had time and dared to enter into digressions, I would write a chapter about that first pint of porter drunk upon English ground. Ah, how good it is! It is worth-while to leave home for a year, just to enjoy that one draught.

Let him smell his way to Dover!

Trip away; Make no stay

I rather would entreat thy company, To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than (living dully sluggardiz'd at home) Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

he dug the paddle into the water first on one side of the canoe, then on the other.

A man's children should have an education. They should get out and see the world and meet people.

we might share this road as far as Trenwith?' 'You're staying with your uncle?' 'Yes.

Sawle-with-Grambler; but Sawle Church would hardly have been big enough, Truro was more central for most of the guests, and November with its heavy rains was not a time for country travel. It was a big wedding after all.

I look forward to a United States of Europe in which the barriers between the nations will be greatly minimised and unrestricted travel will be possible.

Everything here is too far to walk - or too muddy; for the dirt in Paris is beyond all description.

When I am traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep–it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

My GPS, accurate as a racetrack tout, steered me off course, and instead of heading toward Bucks County, I was approaching Niagara Falls.

I think I can safely say I'm the only American stand-up comic who played the Eiffel Tower.

In those days the planes had propellers and couldn't make the trip nonstop and, worst of all, traveled through the sky.

She looked beautiful. And sad. For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery River, of coastlines and stone temples, of bullock carts and colourful trucks, of friends and known shopkeepers, of Nehru Street and Goubert Salai, of this and that, India so familiar to her and loved by her.