Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter O'Toole

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

Pete MacArthur

I need a six month vacation twice a year.

Phyllis McGinley

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

Kim Novak

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

Katy Perry

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

Ramakrishna

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Ralph Ellison

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Rachel Stevens

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything good is on the highway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel is a fools paradise.

Lin Yutang

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Lenny Kravitz

So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way?

Lauren Hutton

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Larry Niven

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Larry McMurtry

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

Lady Gaga

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

Lewis Carroll

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Juliette Binoche

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Julian Smith

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.

Joshua Reynolds

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye...

Josh Billings

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.

K. D. Lang

Traveling renews you.

Maria Mitchell

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

Maria Mitchell

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Paul Theroux

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Paul Theroux

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

Paul Theroux

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Paul Theroux

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.