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A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

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

All adventure is now reactionary.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

All of life is a foreign country.

All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.