Travel Quotes
“When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.”
“There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.”
-- Thomas Perry
“I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.”
-- Patrick Troughton
“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
-- Alphonse de Lamartine
“You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.”
-- Tim Cahill
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
“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.”
-- Jo Nesbo
“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”
-- Stephen Hawking