Around the world Quote by Michael Farmer

“...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors,…

— Marcel Proust

“I took a train to Liverpool. they were having a festival when I arrived. Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to…

— Bill Bryson

“They are both from the Guion Steamship Company, and refer to the sailing of their boats from Liverpool.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.”

— Mavis Gallant

“He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament”

— Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“I’ll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.”

— Jules Verne

“Lascelles threw himself into the carriage, snorting with laughter and saying that he had never in his life heard of anything so ridiculous and…

— Susanna Clarke

“That was a long time I used to sit on my suburb balcony looking over a distant horizon and faraway flames of oil-refineries on…

— Vladislav Khalyavkin

“As late as 1701, a Bordeaux ship’s captain was able to persuade his employers that he had lost his cargo off Newfoundland to a…

— Anonymous

“Life's an Unceartian Voyage”

— William Shakespeare

“Jules was frozen with incredulity. In truth, he could not speak. He was touched by the display of honor in two country squires, and…

— Julie Anne Long