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“Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.”

Ifs Should Firsts Wells I Can Faces Ought Travel Sorry Tea Eggs Soup

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.”

Knows Art Care Past Faces Form Turns Cities Strange Hero Travel Who You Are Available Coffee Shops Shed Nobody Knows Astonishment Coffee Shop Credentials Unarmed Everyman Checkered

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”

Earth Faces Science Travel Flying Flight Aviation Airplane Aeroplanes Great Aviation Airplanes And Flying

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.”

People World Want Trying Dream Able Jobs Faces Song Travel Sells Mail Funny Travel Dream Job

Author:Kristin Hersh

“I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.”

Heart Country Past Faces Names Born Travel Going Away Born Again Moving Away New Faces

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.”

Funny Faces Certain Turns Pleasure Share Dog Car Expression Wind Travel Forgotten Noses Sensitive Sat Tense Apologetic

Author:Mazo de la Roche

“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”

Bigs Earth Faces Travel London Spots Paris Freckles

Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.”

“It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.”

Home Seems Faces Night Names Cold Travel Everyday Get Back All Night Back Home

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.”

Light Eye Faces Found House Lost Nature Dark Darkness Doors Sky Travel Draws Shadow Gains Charm Relief Shade Lit Spectators Splendour

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.”

Eye Faces Nature Air Objects Travel Surface Transmit

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks