travel
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘travel’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.” -Dan Lipinski
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“These days I travel so much it’s hard to get into a routine. When I’m on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I’m home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in…
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“I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.” -Linda McCartney
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“Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens – roughly 200,000 years – people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.” -Andrew…
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“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.” -Madonna…
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“Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.” -Bill Murray
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“You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.” -Adriana Trigiani
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“As far as ‘Twilight’ goes, I’m in love with my character. I’m in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I’d love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything…
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“The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western – just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly – it’s almost the antithetical of what’s currently going on in the movies, you know.” -Lawrence Kasdan
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“We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays – I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want – but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.” -Dan Stevens
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“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.” -Christa McAuliffe
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“I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.” -John…
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“Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What’s not to love!” -Mary-Kate Olsen
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“Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who’s connected with it, the studio’s gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that’s left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.” -Tom Waits
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“I’m living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.” -Ville Valo
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“Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.” -Renee Fleming
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“I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.” -Evelyn Glennie
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“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.” -Paul Theroux
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“It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.” -Roger Moore
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“I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel – packing my bags and choosing my outfits – but my favourite part is getting there.” -Dominic Monaghan
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“I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I’m the only guy with a hat. It’s amazing.” -Larry Hagman
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“I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.” -Jose Saramago
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“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” -Sargent Shriver
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“Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.” -Arthur Smith
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“Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.” -Paul Robeson
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“I’m obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I’ve literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.” -Emma Roberts
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“My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I’m not daunted by the travel. People say, ‘It’s so far to Australia,’ and I say, ‘You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up – and you’re there.’” -Geoffrey Rush
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“I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.” -Sarah Michelle Gellar
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“Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.” -Thomas Hood
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“The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts women’s health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.” -Cynthia Nixon
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“You cannot travel within and stand still without.” -James Lane Allen
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“This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.” -Timothy Radcliffe
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“Some people are drawn naturally – there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.” -Hugh Laurie
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“I’ve had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages – things most people don’t get the opportunity to do.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.” -Sloane Crosley
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“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.” -Ted Allen
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“I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven’t. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.” -Katherine Jenkins
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“What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.” -Marion Cotillard
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“I’ve three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I’m very happily married. I’m very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn’t anything I want.” -Joan Collins
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“More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – I’ll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.” -Joyce Maynard
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“It’s been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.” -Seann William Scott
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“There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a…
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“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” -Danny Kaye
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“When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.” -Drew Carey
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“As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.” -Annette Funicello
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“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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“I really enjoy what I do, and who I’m with and where I am. Having said that, I’m not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.” -Robert Smith
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“I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don’t travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.” -Gene Simmons
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“I want to travel. Maybe I’ll end up living in Norway, making cakes.” -Eva Green
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“It’s important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you’ve got more to feed back into your work. For me, it’s a natural thing.” -Cate Blanchett
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“The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.” -Morley Safer
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“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.” -John Glenn
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“My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.” -Reba McEntire
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“I think it’s important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it’s great I get to travel the world with my daughter.” -Salma Hayek
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“You can’t expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.” -Theodore Bikel
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“I get cold – really cold – when I travel.” -Laura Linney
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“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.” -Charlize Theron
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“If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey
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“Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.” -Amy Grant
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“No one’s going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.” -Rupert Murdoch
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“In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.” -Diane Kruger
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“People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel.” -Theresa May
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“I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I’ve grown as a person so much.” -Ricky Williams
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“I mean, I’d love to have a private jet – I know people who fly by private jet all the time… I’ve hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it’s a great way to travel!” -Marc Jacobs
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“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” -Charles Horton Cooley
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“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.” -Aristophanes
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“I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” -David Attenborough
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“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman
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“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” -Lewis Mumford
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“When I haven’t been working I’ve tried to travel a lot.” -Emma Watson
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“We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It’s something that I definitely always remember, when I’m playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.” -Christina Ricci
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“I’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will…
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“If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.” -Loretta Young
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“My job is to be a spokesman – the spokesman, I suppose – for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.” -Curt Schilling
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“And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.” -Jason Statham
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“Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.” -Gary Oldman
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“There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.” -William Hague
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“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” -David Rockefeller
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“When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.” -Xun Zi
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“The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren’t traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really…
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“I was born to travel and write verse.” -Theophile Gautier
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“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” -Rosalia de Castro
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“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” -Howard Nemerov
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“Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?” -John Cleese
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“I’m such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that’s a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn’t that interested in moving from place to place.” -Bell Hooks
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“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.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“When you travel so many weeks a year, it’s always nice to have a home-cooked meal.” -Maria Sharapova
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“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” -Herman Melville
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“I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“Snowboarding’s tough, because you’ve got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don’t have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.” -Shaun White
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“I like to go to work, and also, I don’t have any kids. I don’t have any hobbies. I don’t like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.” -Christopher Walken
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“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.” -Kevyn Aucoin
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“I think kids ought to travel. I think it’s very good to carry kids around. It’s good for them. Of course it’s tough on the parents.” -Doris Lessing
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“It’s rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don’t operate that way.” -Jim Garrison
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“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” -Hypatia
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“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.” -Jonathan Edwards
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“I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.” -Diane von Furstenberg
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“I want to see friends more and travel more.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“An English man does not travel to see English men.” -Laurence Sterne
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“The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.” -Neil Armstrong
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“I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.” -Benjamin F. Wade
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“The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.” -Ted Nugent
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“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” -Stephen Fry
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“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” -Charles Kuralt
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“I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.” -Hugh Jackman
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“Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.” -Ramakrishna
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“I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?” -Peter Tosh
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“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” -W. H. Auden
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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.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.” -John Muir
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“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” -Hilaire Belloc
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“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” -Thomas Fuller
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“People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” -Martin Yan
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“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” -Britney Spears
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“I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.” -William S. Burroughs
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“Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.” -Horace
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“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” -John Burroughs
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“Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.” -Chief Joseph
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“I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.” -Henry Rollins
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“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime’s Funniest Person in America. And that’s a really tough title to travel around with when you’re not even known.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.” -Andre Gide
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“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” -Josh Billings
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“I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties in fact, I’m the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I’m always working or promoting something.” -Paris Hilton
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“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.” -William Blake
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.” -Helen Keller
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” -Oscar Wilde
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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” -William Shakespeare
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“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” -Michael Jordan
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“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.” -Abdul Kalam
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“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.” -Bob Dylan
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“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.” -Terry Brooks
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“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.” -Hillary Clinton
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“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” -Stephen Hawking
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“The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.” -Michael Palin
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“The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.” -Glenn Tipton
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“My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything… like stray cats and squirrels.” -Eric Roberts
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“My parents and my grandfather on my mom’s side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.” -Brandi Chastain
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“Travelling expands the mind rarely.” -Hans Christian Andersen
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“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.” -Fanny Burney
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“Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.” -Al Boliska
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“A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.” -Lewis Hallam
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“In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.” -Ivanka Trump
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“On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.” -Lisa Snowdon
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“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.” -Guy Clark
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“When I’m in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!” -David Blunkett
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“Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.” -Cynthia Ozick
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“If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.” -Ray Floyd
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“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.” -Jan Morris
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“We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“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.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
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“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” -Miriam Beard
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“When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.” -Phil Collins
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“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” -Italo Calvino
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