Quotes of: Space-travel Keyword

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Robert Lanza

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the indus...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

HAL: I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

2001: A Space Odyssey

[Regarding the supposed failure of the parabolic antenna on the ship, which HAL himself falsified] HAL: It can only be attributable to human error.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dr Floyd: Don't suppose you have any idea what the damn thing is, huh? Dr. Rolf Halvorsen: Wish to hell we did.

2001: A Space Odyssey

No matter how much the wise man travels, he always lives in the same place.

Chinese

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a clo...

The Time Traveler's Wife

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start savin...

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in w...

Kathy Acker

For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead - out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't rea...

Love

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Criss Cross

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps

Every mom has her own battle. Win yours without being 'nyinyir' to others.

The Davincka Code, How Traveling Inspires You

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tediu...

Paul Theroux

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Simon Van Booy

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Reaper Man

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do.

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe