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.”
“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