The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.
Thich Nhat HanhFuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
Robert KiyosakiThere is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Erma BombeckI stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
Steven WrightYou don’t come into cooking to get rich.
Gordon RamsayI’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.
Anthony BourdainWe have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.
Jocko WillinkI guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen KingParis is always a good idea.
Audrey HepburnI shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
Adam SandlerI always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston ChurchillOne of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
Alice WalkerI love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.
Virat KohliWith the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
Richard BransonTo start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.
Billy GrahamI’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
Anthony BourdainPapa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles DickensI hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.
Anthony BourdainI love Velveeta cheese.
Dolly PartonTraveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.
Billy GrahamTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John MuirI have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund HillaryI shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinWhere ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
Angelina JolieI do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. BushWe never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas JeffersonSevier County is a great area.
Dolly PartonThe equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel CastroThe traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund BurkeContrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.
Bill GatesLondon is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin DisraeliTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark TwainI am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher ColumbusThe glamour of it all! New York! America!
Charlie ChaplinI don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.
Anthony BourdainWhen I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.
Noam ChomskyI would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.
Jocko WillinkPeople are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
Anthony BourdainI am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Dalai LamaMy mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.
Dolores HuertaWriting and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest HemingwayExploration by real people inspires us.
Stephen HawkingThere is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma BombeckIt’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
Brian EnoAs a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.
Richard BransonOne of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Stephen CoveyI love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘
Steven WrightWherever you go, go with all your heart.
ConfuciusI, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainHunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin FranklinI can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
Karl LagerfeldI’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
Christopher HitchensIn New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
Lana Del ReyTravel teaches toleration.
Benjamin DisraeliActing helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.
Angelina JolieI’m a wandering gypsy.
Lady GagaSoutheast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
Anthony BourdainEven though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
Charles BukowskiFame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
David Bowie