#ravel

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#around #astronomers #clouds #disappointed #disappointment

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much. ↗

— Lucy R. Lippard

#art

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#travel #life

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#envies #far #fast #fears #light

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#jackson-burnett #life-philosophy #light-vs-heavy #the-past-never-ends #travel

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#anymore #around #big #college #contain

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#father #had #hank #hank williams #ravel

You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears. ↗

— Will Ferguson

#humour #travel #beauty

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#been #desperately #dog #i #much

I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - people didn't get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up or two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#lonely #the-last-tycoon #travel #travelling #age