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Travel Quotes
"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
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"You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel."
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"I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something."
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"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."
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"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
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"I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit."
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"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
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"It was good to travel to the other side of the world."
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"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."
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"I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?"
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"David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali."
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"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
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"The best part of traveling is finding yourself."
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"I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative."
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
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"The best tourist is one without a camera."
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"Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money."
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"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."
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"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
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"Yeah, well, when they say 'You know it's a long way, don't you?' what they really mean is: 'You know it'd be faster if you just rode a kangaroo, don't you?"
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"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."
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"As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception."
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"It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map."
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"I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech in his person - well, that Arab would be at Marrakech, not I : I should still be seated in my room, placid and meditative as is my chosen life, two thousand miles away from the Moroccan and his burnoose. In my room. Forever."
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"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."
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"You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write."
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"At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards."
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