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Travel

Whenever I travel anywhere, Im constantly asked if Im Swedish. Its the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think. – Christopher Heyerdahl

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and Im very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive. – Mikhail Prokhorov

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory – whats going on, what the opportunities are there – you talk about your own research. – Frank Press

Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But thats not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. Thats the only way to travel. – Kiran Ahluwalia

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. – Miriam Beard

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, youre free, you can do what you want, youre the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him. – Lea Seydoux

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game – in hospitals, homes, prisons – those who have seldom seen a game, who cant travel to a game, those who are blind. – Jack Buck

A lot of people say that comedy doesnt travel well. I found it very accessible. – Mark Addy

I travel the world, and Im happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean. – Philip Glass

Theres no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us. – Marvin Davis

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. – George Ade

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. – Fred A. Allen

My favorite thing is to go where Ive never been. – Diane Arbus

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. – Brigitte Bardot

The local is a shabby thing. Theres nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal. – Jean Baudrillard

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. – Sir Thomas Beecham

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

I have been a stranger in a strange land. – Bible

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. – Josh Billings