Travel Quotes
“When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.”
“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