Travel Quotes - Page 38

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

  Paul Theroux

  Landscape, Worst, Train

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• World will suffice for me in the future.

  Mary Cassatt

  World

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• Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, Journey, Fit

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• To be a stranger in a strange land:
  Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before,
  There where my brother far away is ascending,
  The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

  Wang Wei

  Brother, Men, Thinking

  "Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon". "The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry", book edited by Robert Payne, 2014.

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• In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.

  Will Durst

  Funny, Halloween, San Francisco

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• Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Team, Sixteen, Sanity

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.282, Lulu.com

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Crush, Boredom, Tourists

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Maps, Wheels

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• I travel all the time.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Time Travel

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• There is a land that I can go to
  When I have time to rest.
  All the people I love are there
  And those who love me best.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Land, People, I Can

  Song: Ireland, Album: A Child's Adventure

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• I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Jobs, Home, Airports

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• Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

  Tadao Ando

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Real

  Twitter post from May 03, 2010

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• Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

  Red Buttons

  Funny, Brother, Air

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• The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Government

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• Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Funny, Real, Kansas

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• Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Worry, Car

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 07, 2010

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• San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, San Francisco, People

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2009

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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Yards, Lines

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• American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

  Tom Hooper

  Class, Age, Culture

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I like to travel by myself.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

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• I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

  Hilary Swank

  Smart, Book, Way

  "Famous Celebrities without High School Diploma". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

  Charlize Theron

  Reading, Looks, World

  "My adopted baby is great…I never knew I could live on 4hrs sleep" by Grant Rollings, www.thesun.co.uk. May 15, 2012.

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• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Ideas, Abortion

  "Cynthia Nixon: Abortion debate's new voice". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2009.

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• There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Self, Growth, Mind

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