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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

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.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.