Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Goldsmith

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Paulo Coelho

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Paulo Coelho

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

Paulo Coelho

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations..

Paulo Coelho

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Pico Iyer

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Pico Iyer

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

Pico Iyer

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Pico Iyer

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

E. B. White

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

Dustin Diamond

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

Dustin Diamond

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Drew Goddard

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

Douglas Kennedy

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Clint Eastwood

I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.

Clint Eastwood

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

Clint Eastwood

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

Dylan Moran

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Dustin Pedroia

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.