“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.”
Travel breaks you out of your routine and into someone else's world. These quotes capture the thrill of departure, the discomfort of unfamiliarity, the joy of discovery, and the way coming home feels different after you have seen how other people live.
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.”
“You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.”
“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
“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.”
“It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.”
“I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.”
“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.”
“Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.”
“I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.”
“I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.”
“Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.”
“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
“I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.”
“Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.”