Travel Quotes - Page 53

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

You are what you inhabit.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.

I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.