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.

John Dryden

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

John Masefield

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

John Lubbock

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Anthony de Mello

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

Anthony de Mello

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

Alonzo Mourning

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

Anne Roiphe

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anna Deavere Smith

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anita Hill

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

Anita Brookner

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

Paul Ince

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

Terry Pratchett

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

John F. Kennedy

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

Julie Burchill

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Banksy

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

Clive Thompson

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Jeremy Roenick

When we watch hockey games and see 8,000 fans in (Washington) D.C., you cringe as a player, ... Those cities that aren't pulling their weight in terms of drawing fans and revenue are hurting everybody as a whole, not just that city.

Steve Heimer

We've played in 51 different cities and 14 U.S. states and the state of Chihuahua.

Chris Davis

There are a lot of objects some cities use (to slow traffic) that are just really hazardous to bicycles.