Quotes About Travel

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

It's always cool on the airplane when people are watching "SVU." It's funny. And it's always the reruns.

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Blue punch buggie!

Here's no way I'm going to Jersey without my hair gel, can't leave without my gel.

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.