Best 2527 quotes in «travel quotes» category

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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

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

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

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.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.