Travel Quotes - Page 18

• Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Elephants, Perfection

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Nature, Home

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.1, University of Arizona Press

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• He who must travel happily must travel light.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Light, Travel Light

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• The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Distance, Land, Pace

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Real, Atlas, Pieces

  Evelyn Waugh (1934). “Ninety-two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil”, Serif Publishing

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• My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

  Roberta Williams

  Adventure, Games, Stories

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• I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

  Steve Squyres

  Adventure, People, Giving

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• Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Two, Clothes, Months

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• Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiring, Add, Each Day

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• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

  Beautiful, Regret, Journey

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm leaving on a jet plane
  Don't know when I'll be back again

  John Denver

  Song, Leaving, Jet Planes

  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (song) (1967)

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• The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

  Roberta Williams

  Husband, Adventure, Son

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• When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

  Robin Wright

  Past, Car, Way

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• I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

  Rose McGowan

  Thinking, Phones, People

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• Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

  Tom Berenger

  Running, Mean, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Strong, Adventure

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

  William Bligh

  Adventure, Wind, Variables

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• California: Sunny nutland.

  Edwin Diamond

  Home, California, Sunny

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Baby, Witty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

  George P. Shultz

  Inspirational, Commitment, Sides

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• Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
  I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Calling, World

  Song: Harem Holiday

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• Look down - look down that lonesome road
  Before you travel on

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Looks, Lonesome

  Song: Lonesome Road, The, Album: A Swingin' Affair!

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

  Bill Bryson

  Cities, Arriving, Evening

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Tourism, Particular

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Bill Bryson

  Memorable, Pessimism, Natural

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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