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Travel Quotes
Miles, memories, and the pull of somewhere else.
These travel quotes range from the practical, packing a favorite philosophy book for the road, to the personal, like a parent sacrificing rent money so a child could go away for athletic training. A few speak to travel as genre obsession, chasing time-travel stories more than actual destinations. Read more in our Jokes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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In my early years, I would travel 56 km. from home to the training institute and back every single day.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.
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Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.
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I found that traveling on my own created a different state of mind because when you travel with your partner or a friend there is an endless tendency to exchange information, feelings and associations.
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I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
- Nov 07, 2020