Travel Quotes - Page 66

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

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

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Heaven's my destination.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

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

There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.