World Quotes

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

~ Neil Peart

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

~ Charlize Theron

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

~ Marianne Vos

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

~ Pico Iyer

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

~ Morley Safer

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

~ Kate Christensen

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

~ George R. R. Martin

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

~ William Hazlitt

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

~ Herman Melville

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

~ David Wilcock

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

~ Joshua Bell

As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in the 'Chuck Norris Facts' - those hyperbolic sayings that elevate my abilities beyond my capabilities. Others view me in light of the character I played in 'Walker, Texas Ranger' or in one of my 20 tough-guy films.

~ Chuck Norris

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

~ Henry Rollins

I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.

~ Michael Leunig

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

~ Claire Danes

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

~ Virginia Postrel

I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.

~ Theophilus London

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

~ Salma Hayek

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

~ Jim Harrison

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

~ Bindi Irwin

My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'

~ Margot Robbie

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

~ Sean Bean

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

~ Kurt Elling

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.

~ Robert Smith

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

~ Drew Carey

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

~ James Mcavoy

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

~ Colin Trevorrow

I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart.

~ Michael Franti

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

~ Philip Stanhope

America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.

~ Jamie Dimon

I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.

~ Bernard Sumner

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

~ Nobu Matsuhisa

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

~ David Thewlis

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.

~ Alain Ducasse

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

~ Martin Parr

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.

~ Ricky Williams

When I was 17, my main goal was to be in a band and travel the world. I ended up getting to do that with my old band Hey Monday. I got to see the world and learn how to tour, and the next thing I knew, I was on 'The Voice.' So it was just a crazy, crazy ride.

~ Cassadee Pope