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Quotations on Travel 305 Quotes Found The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air. Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started. I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy. I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up! But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. We must travel in the direction of our fear. That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash. You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country. If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important. The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing. During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Two great talkers will not travel far together. I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year. An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. It was good to travel to the other side of the world. I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby. Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind. Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
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