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We had a strong desire to make a trip up the Yazoo and the Sunflower—an interesting region at any time, but additionally interesting at this time, because up there the great inundation was still to be seen in force—but we were nearly sure to have to wait a day or more for a New Orleans boat on our return; so we were obliged to give up the project.
— Mark Twain
Only two things we'll regret on deathbed — that we are a little loved and little traveled.
— Mark Twain
Pilgrims in better circumstances are often stricken down by the sun and the fevers of the country, and then their saving refuge is the Convent. Without these hospitable retreats, travel in Palestine would be a pleasure which none but the strongest men could dare to undertake. Our party, pilgrims and all, will always be ready and always willing, to touch glasses and drink health, prosperity and long life to the Convent Fathers of Palestine.
— Mark Twain
We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.
— Mark Twain
In conclusion, rapid space travel and travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding. They would cause great logical problems, so let's hope there's a Chronology Protection Law to prevent people going back and killing their parents.
— Stephen Hawking
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
— Drew Barrymore
And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.
— Robert Brault
A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.
— Robert Brault
Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried.
— LM Montgomery
Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of, laughed Anne. Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps? I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot, said Priscilla, but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure...
— LM Montgomery
Italy will always have the best food.
— Diane von Furstenberg