Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Phillip Phillips

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Hilary Mantel

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

Hilaire Belloc

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Henry James

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

Gustave Flaubert

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

John Dryden

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

Remy de Gourmont

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

Sonia Braga

I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

Sonia Braga

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Rutger Hauer

I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain...

Rumi

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Roland Emmerich

I was actually privately in the White House like invited by Clinton to screen Independence Day, so I know how the private residence looks. I didn't snap a picture, but I have a photographic memory and then I could take a guided tour in the West Wing.

Susan Griffin

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.

Susan Cain

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

Suresh Raina

The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.

Bobby Womack

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Zayn Malik

Never live life in fear of death

Zadie Smith

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.