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“Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.”

House Building Cost Travel

Book:Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five

Source: Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle”

House Battle Travel Horse Faster Bridges Fairy Witch Troops Meadows Cattle Charging

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses (兒童詩園)

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (兒童詩園)

“The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.”

Men Mean Has Beens Different Life Is House Travel Gun Borders Customs Officers Passports Great Travel Different Life

Book:Another Mexico

Source: Another Mexico

“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.”

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Author:Christa McAuliffe

“My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.”

Needs Jobs House President Term White Issues Travel Presses Access Manage Interviews White House Day To Day Funny Travel Briefing

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.”

Three House Friendship Travel Welcome Guests Cynicism Altruism Nuisance House Guests

Author:Plautus

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

Knows Persons Whole House Cities Saws Streets Travel

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.”

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Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

“I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.”

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Author:James Rollins

“I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.”

Funny House Walks Dog Car Travel Stranger Accompany

Author:Mazo de la Roche

“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.”

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Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks