Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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