Travel Quotes
“For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.”
“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