Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Alain de Botton

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Charles Darwin

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Jimmy Cliff

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Arthur C. Clarke

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Anton Chekhov

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Anthony Trollope

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Coco Chanel

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Bob Dylan

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Bob Dylan

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Bob Dylan

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Billy Connolly

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

Bruce Dern

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

Brigitte Bardot

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Arthur Symons

A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.

Antonio Machado

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Edmund Hillary

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Edward Norton

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

Bruce Chatwin

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Charles Bukowski

I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Aristotle

Adventure is worthwhile.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.