Long Journeys Quotes

I make good music for long journeys.

— The Weeknd

I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in…

— Angela Bowie

“He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine…

— Ian McEwan

I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in…

— Steve Backshall

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some…

— Anonymous

I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal,…

— Anonymous

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal,…

— Anonymous

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may…

— Robert Bly

“In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love…

— Annie Dillard

“Is that a Sneakoscope?” said Hermione interestedly, standing up for a better look. “Yeah … mind you, it’s a very cheap one,”…

— J.K. Rowling

Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the…

— Ray Bradbury

“I have always loved long journeys. The act of leaving accustomed surroundings is a release from real time, real life. You can…

— Witi Ihimaera

“For home had a way of shifting, of changing shape and temperature. Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only…

— Diana Evans

By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the…

— Barack Obama

“Her tea basket was still lost, but that didn’t seem to matter now. People used to eat loose tea on long journeys.…

— L.L. Barkat

“In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors,…

— Pete Seeger

“Fatima went back to her tent, and, when daylight came, she went out to do the chores she had done for years.…

— Paulo Coelho

“...for theirs was a life developed around change, and around a permanent struggle with nature. Consequently, the steppe pastoralist had a very…

— Antony Karasulas

“Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless…

— Don DeLillo

“the impression made upon them by the first view of a camel equipped and loaded for the desert. Custom, so fatal to…

— Lew Wallace

I used to be a very fit, athletic footballer. When I became a comedian, everything went to pot: long journeys; late-night food.…

— Omid Djalili

I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky…

— Steve Backshall

During the season, the teams play every third day. That's a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we…

— Toni Kroos

“The mind does not stay all the time with the feeling of breath. It goes to sounds, memories, emotions, perceptions, consciousness, and…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“Johnny Cake or hoe cake is baked, and thus more closely resembles cornbread. . . . The name, it has been claimed,…

— Ken Albala

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.…

— Anonymous

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne