"Journey all over the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconvenicences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst."
-- from Don Quixote, 1615
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Quote: Henry Miller ...
"You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread."
-- from "The Staff of Life," in Remember to Remember, 1947
-- from "The Staff of Life," in Remember to Remember, 1947
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Quote: Michael Chrichton ...
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of your clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.
-- from Travels, 2002
-- from Travels, 2002
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Quote: Bill Bryson ...
"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted."
-- from his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2000.
-- from his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2000.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Quote: Ernest Hemingway ...
"All I wanted to do now was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie listening, homesick for it already."
-- from Green Hills of Africa, 1935
-- from Green Hills of Africa, 1935
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Quote: Diane Arbus ...
"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. For me, there's something about just going into somebody else's house. When it comes time to go, if I have to take a bus to somewhere or if I have to take a cab uptown, it's like I've got a blind date. It's always seemed something like that to me. And sometimes I have a sinking feeling of, Oh God it's time and I don't really want to go. And then, once I'm on my way, something terrific takes over about the sort of queasiness of it and how there's absolutely no method for control"
-- quoted in Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, 1972
-- quoted in Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, 1972
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Quote: Vladimir Nabokov ...
"That life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else."
-- from "Spring in Fialta," 1956
-- from "Spring in Fialta," 1956
Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Quote: Willa Cather ...
"Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things."
-- from Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927
-- from Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Quote: Robert Benchley ...
"In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children."
-- from Pluck and Luck, 1925
-- from Pluck and Luck, 1925
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Quote: G. K. Chesterton ...
"They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind."
-- from "The Shadow of the Shark," 1921
-- from "The Shadow of the Shark," 1921
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Quote: Francis Kilvert ...
"Of all noxious animals, too, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist."
--from a diary entry, April 5, 1870
--from a diary entry, April 5, 1870
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Quote: Robert Runcie ...
"In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."
-- from a speech given in London, December 6, 1988
-- from a speech given in London, December 6, 1988
Friday, January 8, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Quote: Rudyard Kipling ...
For to admire an' for to see,
For to be'old this world so wide--
It never done no good to me,
But I can't drop it if I tried!
from "For to Admire," 1894
For to be'old this world so wide--
It never done no good to me,
But I can't drop it if I tried!
from "For to Admire," 1894
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Quote: Wolfgang Mozart ...
"For I assure you that people who do not travel (especially artists and scientific men) are but poor creatures."
-- from letter to a friend, September 18, 1778
-- from letter to a friend, September 18, 1778
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Quote: J.B. Priestley ...
"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."
-- from Delight, 1949
-- from Delight, 1949
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Quote: Benjamin Franklin ...
"He that would travel much, should eat little."
-- from Poor Richard's Almanack, 1755
-- from Poor Richard's Almanack, 1755
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