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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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.
My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
I'm lucky that I've been able to do things in my career that is affording us the luxury of not having to travel in a van to tour.
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.
I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.
In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.
Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.
I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.
My style is like, if I were to time travel to the '80s or '90s, I would fit in, but they would be like, 'Something's off about her.'
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.