#travels

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak. ↗

— Brian Williams

#bright #faster #hear #light #people

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#better #clearly #country #fact #international

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#crowd #genius #good #good sense #great

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#common #described #detail #documents #eclipse

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#find #friend #honest #our #travelers

He travels the fastest who travels alone. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#alone #fastest #travels #who

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#down #fastest #throne #travels #up

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their help he was always getting to know new people, many of whom even became his friends. ↗

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

#books #reading #travels #art

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#poem #rolling-stone #travels #wanderlust #life