“If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”
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“Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.”
“People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.”
“I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.”
“I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it's a great way to travel!”
“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.”
“This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.”
“Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.”
“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.”
“What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.”
“I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.”
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”
“When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.”
“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.”
“I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.”
“You cannot travel within and stand still without.”
“It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.”
“I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.”
“I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.”
“The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.”
“Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.”
“A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.”
“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.”
“I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.”