Travel Quotes - Page 59

From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.