Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Oscar Wilde

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Madonna Ciccone

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

Madonna Ciccone

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

Ma Jian

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

Louis L'Amour

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Margaret Oliphant

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Margaret Oliphant

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Michel de Montaigne

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

Mark Twain

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Mark Twain

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Mark Twain

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

He was always travelling like the winner. I like the horse, he will only get better.

Oh, yeah, it's right here, from that play. I thought it was (a foul). He (ref) kind of hesitated, then made the travel call.

Jim Harrison

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

James A. Baldwin

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

James A. Baldwin

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

George Harrison

But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Jason Mraz

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

Jason Mraz

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Hillary Clinton

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

Herbert Hoover

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

Evelyn Waugh

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

Evelyn Waugh

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Evelyn Waugh

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

Eugene Ionesco

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

Ernest Hemingway

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Ernest Hemingway

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Eudora Welty

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.