Travel Quotes - Page 44

To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

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

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.