Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Bill Vaughan

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

Bethenny Frankel

I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

Russell Smith

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

Pat Conroy

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Matt Blunt

We have the responsibility to do everything we can to make sure the journey to and from school is as safe as it can be for children,

Maya Angelou

I was thinking about that, about the journeys in the film, journey to the roots, journey to the heart. We're all on journeys.

Javier Solana

You have started your journey and if everything turns out fine, you can end up in Brussels.

Bible Bible

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Cheryl Crowder

Journey has always been one that we wanted for the Jam.

Carl Rogers

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

Bethenny Frankel

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

B. F. Skinner

The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Devon Sawa

One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.

David Selby

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Mitchell

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Crystal

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Sanborn

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.