Travel Quotes
“I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.”
“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
“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
“Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.”
-- Miguel Jontel Pimentel
“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