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" You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. "
Paul Theroux
Late
Grateful
Good
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" 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 tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone. "
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" I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. "
David Attenborough
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Think
" During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change. "
John Delaney
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Women
Service
" Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before. "
Pico Iyer
Back
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Transformation
" Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite. "
Paul Theroux
Corruption
Train
Talking
" I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either. "
Katrina Kaif
Feel
Travel
Clothes
" You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something. "
Tim Cahill
Short
Story
Think
" 'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. "
Kip Thorne
Meet
You
Yourself
" I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. "
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Just
Dog
Young
" The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. "
Robyn Davidson
Travel
Rich
Commercial
" Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. "
Paul Theroux
Day
Life
Writing
" My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there. "
Shreya Ghoshal
Parents
Music
College
" But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad. "
Coolio
My Life
Chance
Life
" My mom would always travel with us to everything; my dad introduced us to the weight room and showed us how to properly work out. "
Rob Gronkowski
Everything
Always
Mom
" Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. "
Paul Theroux
Destination
Short
Dark
" I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone. "
Paul Theroux
Large
Alone
Vague
" People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. "
Martin Yan
Travel
Live
New Things
" I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.' "
Yoko Ono
Voice
Always
Said
" All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. "
Martin Buber
Unaware
Travel
Secret
" Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile. "
Tim Finchem
Done
Travel
People
" I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart. "
Michael Franti
Rest
World
People
" I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel. "
Gabby Douglas
Take
Me
Sometimes
" Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. "
Paul Theroux
Extent
Jack
Life
" Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. "
Frank Borman
Spirit
Travel
Exploration
" Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. "
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Only
Glamorous
Retrospect
" Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet distinguished figures, to travel, and to see the world and think about its problems if they chose. "
Nigel Hamilton
Travel
Meet
Problems
" Most people travel outside of Australia. They don't realise what we've got. "
Nick Cummins
People
Australia
Got
" When I explained my business model to my family, they asked if I was going to open a travel agency. "
Bhavish Aggarwal
Travel
Open
Going
" What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on? "
George Carlin
You
Does
Get