Quotes About Travel

The best thing about London is Paris.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

I have the best job in the world.

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

We're in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car. And I do that when I get onto a plane as well!

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.