Travel Quotes - Page 43

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

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

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

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.