Travel Quotes - Page 32

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

  Arthur Symons

  Secret, Stranger, Shyness

  "Cities of Italy".

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• Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

  Farley Mowat

  Dog, Boys, Hands

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• Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Reading, Home

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

  Ambrose

  Rome, Elsewhere

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• No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

  Chuck Thompson

  Inspirational, Inspiring Travel, Traveled

  Chuck Thompson (2010). “To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism”, p.15, Macmillan

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• The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

  Justus von Liebig

  Discovery, Secret, Impossible

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• It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Dragonflies, Half, Far Away

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• Going on means going far, going far means returning.

  Laozi

  Mean

  Laozi, Burton Watson, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (1993). “Dao de Jing”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, Airplane, Lasts

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• Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Years, World, Shifting

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• He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

  Jules Verne

  Spirit

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.6, Jules Verne

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• Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

  Socrates

  Doe, Helping, Wonder

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

  Lady Gaga

  Littles, Possession

  "Lady Gaga lives the simple life" by Lauren Parvizi, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2010.

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• The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

  Adam Carolla

  Knowing, Car, Choices

  "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.

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• You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

  Willi Unsoeld

  Nature, Sight, Climbing

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• The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Eye, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

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• I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

  Mary Oliver

  Home, Way, Climbs

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Train

  "The Red House Mystery and Other Novels".

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Stronger, Bovine, Agoraphobia

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• I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

  Heather Nova

  Rain, Smell, Singing

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• They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sky, Dying, Comfort

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

  Carsten Jensen

  Ocean, America, Choices

  Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

  Edward Norton

  Tourism, Negative

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• 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!

  Katy Perry

  Falling In Love, Party, World

  Song: California Girls

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• No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Journey, Men, Wish

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.14, 谷月社

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