Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Benito Mussolini

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

Elizabeth Bowen

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

Augustus

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Romeo Miller

If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.

English Proverbs

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

English Proverbs

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

English Proverbs

When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

English Proverbs

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

English Proverbs

When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

Rob Schlichting

Prices are actually increasing faster elsewhere than they are here. If there's any good news to all this, it's that.

Bruce Beehler

Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two long-beaked echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.

Joe Murphy

That's the way we've played all year. Some teams will go all out to stop Devan, using a box-and-one or diamond-and-one defenses to take him out of the game, but that usually leaves an opening elsewhere and we've always had others step up.

David Stout

I didn't make any money, ... I paid my kid to go pump gas for them elsewhere just to keep them as customers.

Marcia MacClary

Frankly, it is unclear how this regional process would work and what would make it superior to the process we have today, which seems to work very well elsewhere in the country.

John Reid

I was asked, what was my response to those people who said that what was going on at Heathrow and elsewhere was all part of a public relations exercise, a spin,

Billy Davis

We made the enquiry and now we've made the move. Maybe, with the appearances he's made for Celtic, the opportunities may lie elsewhere and we're hoping something can be done.

Bhagavad Gita

Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.

Damien Woody

Let's be real. Especially if you've been in this situation for a while where it's not been a winning environment, guys might be looking elsewhere to be a part of something else.