Quotes for All
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; …avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries… But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; ‘we’ are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is … Read more
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the … Read more
We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this. Eugenie de Guerin
The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages. Eugene Mirman
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. Eudora Welty
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope. Erma Bombeck
So this [Grant MacLaren] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears. Eric McCormack
They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they’re coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn’t notice. And one character’s Facebook page is made up of lies. It’s an interesting comment on what’s been going on the last few months. We cannot … Read more
[Jack Nash] was very different than anything I’d played. In fact, there’s a scene I have in a tent with Louis Ferreira, who just did an episode of Travelers. He was in the fourth episode of Travelers playing another team leader, and we really have it out, not unlike the way we did in the … Read more
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn’t afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought. Eric Frank Russell