#travels

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

#books #finding #four #great #i

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#am #antarctica #atm #cash #consider

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats. ↗

— Bruce Froemming

#dieting #eats #i #man #me

The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#man #travels #wanders #wise #wise man

All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang) ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#daily-life #discovere #eternal-change #glory #hopes

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. ↗

— Florence King

#double #fastest #feminism #goes #real

But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation; and that they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#imagination

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#adventures #allows #anywhere #because #between

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#collection #geographic #national #national geographic #sources

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. ↗

— Dave Barry

#believe #bills #cannot #company #electric