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Travel

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. – Jose Saramago

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. – Sargent Shriver

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. – Arthur Smith

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. – Paul Robeson

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. – Sarah Michelle Gellar

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. – Thomas Hood

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice. – Linda McCartney

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays – I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want – but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit. – Dan Stevens

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. – Jerzy Kosinski

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel. – Renee Fleming

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life. – Renee Fleming

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. – Evelyn Glennie

Two great talkers will not travel far together. – George Borrow

I hate to travel with stuff. – Manolo Blahnik

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. – Jeffrey Archer

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day. – Janet Napolitano

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. – George Byron

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. – Dan Lipinski