Caravans – Quotes

I wanted to make

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I’m spending a lot of time in – we call them caravans in Britain. Ewan McGregor

I’ve always been scared of advertising folk. I’ve met them at parties and I’ve been to their offices and I’ve always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical … Read more

Oh, I wish I

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night! Enid Blyton

The Indian who fells

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings. Edward Gibbon

Who would deduce the

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? …We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. Diane Ackerman

The world is a

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, … Read more

What does it matter

What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? … The caravan moves on Bruce R. McConkie

Hitoshi: I’ll never be

Hitoshi: I’ll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven’t a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I’ve yet to meet, others I’ll never see again. People who are gone … Read more

Strange, that I came

Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God… I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me. Aurangzeb

Every age has its

Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise … Read more