Travel Quotes - Page 8

Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

There is a light in every soul.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill . . ."
"I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born."
"Yes, who was emperor back then?

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might sort out his sex life. I prayed to Buddha he would be successful. If he didn't get some action soon, I doubted I would, either.

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.

To do is to be – Aristotle
To be or not to be – Shakespeare
To be is to do – Jean-Paul Sartre
Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra