Amusement Quote by Edith Wharton

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

— John Steinbeck

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

— Henry Rollins

The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't…

— Daniel Simon

“the company—that at the eleventh hour an old ship with a lower standard of speed had been put on in place of the vessel…

— Henry James

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

— Olaf Stapledon

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted…

— J. Maarten Troost

“A car whipped past, the driver eating and a passenger clicking a camera. Moving without going anywhere, taking a trip instead of making one.…

— William Least Heat-Moon

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

— Doug Liman

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by…

— Frederik Pohl