Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Al Stewart

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Edward Hoagland

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Brinkley

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Bear Grylls

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Arthur Rimbaud

What am I doing here?

Alan Greenspan

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Cheryl Strayed

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

Andy Richter

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.

Tana French

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Michael Lewis

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

Michael McFaul

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

Mignon McLaughlin

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Guillermo del Toro

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Robert Holsworth

I actually think in retrospect our decision-making turned out very well,

Aisha Tyler

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

Roger Johnson

It's not the most glamorous job, but you got to have them.

Adrian Jones

It's a less glamorous role, but I feel like it's more important.

Michael Bradley

They're not real glamorous things, but schools need some relief to those major issues.

Jack Kyser

People see this as an industry that's very glamorous and exciting, but it's an industry that's going through some major inflections,

Izabel Goulart

Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.

Rob Sumner

Roman has really played hard and much better. He's always had the talent and now he's really playing hard in the less glamorous parts of the game.

Lesley Nicol

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.

Tina Brown

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.