Quotes of: Time-travel Keyword

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Victor Hugo

There are no guarantees with finally being honest and coming clean with people. Sometimes you don’t win love back. Sometimes you lose the love you had. Sometimes you crush people that cared. Sometimes you break apart families. Sometimes you lose yo...

Shannon L. Alder

You travel on until you return home; you live on until you return to earth.

Ethiopian

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

Chinese

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

The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between…Too, the rhetoric of efficiency ...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Donnie: I have to obey him. He saved my life. I have to obey him, or I'll be left all alone. And then... And then I won't be able to figure out what this is all about. I won't be able to know his master plan. Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you mean *God's* m...

Donnie Darko

[Tim has just learned his dad is dying of cancer] Tim: It's just... I though with the time thing... Dad: No, I never said we could fix things. I specifically never said that. Life's a mixed bag, no matter who you are. Look at Jesus: he was the son of...

About Time

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the so...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches