Travel Quotes - Page 71

Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

The road less traveled will not be smooth

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.