Best travel & reading Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

World Looks Whole Reading Grew Travel Grew Up South Bottom Maps South Africa Encyclopedia

Author:Charlize Theron

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”

Ideas Motivational Reading Company Travel Funny Travel Speed Reading

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.”

World Joy Reading Travel Prose Tourists

Book:Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley

Source: Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley

“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”

Ifs Want Book Reading Practice Path Meditation Walking Travel Substitutes

Author:Bill Porter

“The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.”

Art Order Reading Social Sports Music Fashion Fine Travel Office Senses Vanity Enjoyment Enjoy Life Gathering Enjoyable Fine Arts Intoxication Honorary Reading Music

Author:Johan Huizinga

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

Book Home Reading Literature Journey Travel Train Planes Destination Reading Books Book Reading Books And Reading My Journey Writing And Reading Inspirational Reading Reading Books To Children Reading Room Journey Home

Book:How Reading Changed My Life

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”

World Book Reading My Own Travel Traveled Other Worlds Dare To Dream

Book:How Reading Changed My Life

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.”

Book Moving Reading Literature Feet Travel Novelists Reading Books Joy Of Reading Namesake

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”

Want Important Book Reading Travel Radical Evolve Urges

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.”

People Humans Today Reading Media Planets Travel Speed Funny Travel Human Experience

Author:Chaim Potok

“My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.”

Writing Firsts Three Reading Literature Subjects Travel Elements Reflection Thirds Combination Exploration Funny Travel Tourists Tourism Reading Literature

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.”

Knows Mind Long Has Beens States Home Reading Left Worry Dog Travel Lifetime Pace Hysteria Suitcases Mind Reading

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.”

Wanted Reading Fiction Growing Up Growing Travel Science Fiction Traveler Explorers Inaccessible

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.”

Book Reading Travel Pages Exciting Subtle Books And Reading Implied Travel Books

Book:The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

“What these books and their like have done for me is tap into some roaming tendency of the mind; I know that I could never have done what these writers have done, been where they have been, pursued the interests they have pursued, but I want to know what it is like. We go to fiction to extend experience, to get beyond our own, For me, this kind of non-fiction writer is furnishing the same need--taking me out of my own comfortable expectations and showing me how it might be elsewhere. Armchair travel? Not quite. I have never believed that travel broadens the mind, having known some well-travelled minds that were nicely atrophied. Rather, these are books--experiences--that encourage a leap of the imagination.”

Reading Imagination Books Travel Experiences

Book:Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

Source: Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Travel Quotes

Related topics

Travel Quotes