Best Foreign Places Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.”

Thinking Want Turns Travel Traveler Dismayed Foreign Places

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.”

Way Sometimes Moments Painting Impression Thrilling Register Foreign Places

Author:Susan Minot

“It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.”

People World Universe Love Is Sick Buying Radiation Parallels Involving Sweaters One You Love Someone You Love Markers Tumors Parallel Universe Foreign Places

Author:Katie Couric

“That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.”

Art Dream Able Process Imagination Deals Existence Quality Impossible Risk Building Block Touching Blank Canvas Strokes Toil Great Art Building Blocks Blank Canvas Foreign Places

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.”

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.”

Identity Starting Starting Point Foreign Places

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”

Men Should Mind Wells Example Aim Chiefs Wiser Traveler Good Examples Foreign Places

Book:Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition

Source: Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition

“Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.”

Firsts Hours Rooms Results Fine First Time Empty Blow Impression Hotel Yield Hotel Rooms Foreign Places

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?”

People Wells Different Moving Cities Special Particular Asking Foreign Places

Author:DJ /rupture

“Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.”

Way Different Film Literature Existence Shoes Lifting Foreign Places

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.”

People Thinking Easy Situation Broke Finding Yourself Foreign Places

Author:Regina Spektor

“I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.”

People Thinking Want Term Position Chosen Like Me Distinction Thrown Privileged Exile Foreign Places

Author:Pico Iyer

“I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.”

Stills Young Reading Movement Listening Promise Grateful Raised Glad Symbols California Glamour Romanticism Lucy Foreign Places

Author:Pico Iyer

“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”

Looks Mean Doe Home Suffering Sweet Comparison Jewels Brighter Foreign Places

Book:The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.”

Would Be Used Order Cases Groups Masters Senses Merit Customs Judged Outsiders Phases Rejected Newcomers Foreign Places

Book:Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature

Source: Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature

“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”

Men Way Has Beens Sometimes Seems Literature Quality Disease Lonely Longing Hunger New Ways Unrest Wanderers Foreign Places

Book:Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

“I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.”

World Mind Persons America Desire My Own Land Tears Divine Strange Roots Strive Dare Welcome Schemes Halfway Promised Land Foreign Places

Author:Ronald Reagan