Armchair Travel Quotes

#1. He had broken one of the cardinal rules - Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself - and he'd been loving life ever since. They

Christopher Moore

#2. A service is well rendered when the receiver can remember it.

Publilius Syrus

#3. You have one chance in life to make it something special. Why would you waste it on mediocrity? Safe and easy is for pussies. Be amazing and different. Be grateful for the uniqueness in you.

Tara Brown

#4. You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

Ansel Elgort

#5. A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

Katrina Mayer

#6. One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.

Jules Verne

#7. When sitting in an armchair isn't enough ... I write. What I mean is that when it no longer suffices to sit and dream about travelling to other times, other places, I write about them instead. A most economical and safe form of time travel.

Anna Belfrage

#8. Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage.

CJ Fosdick

#9. My inamorata, you know where I'll be: where I'll always be. Waiting. For you.

Debra Anastasia

#10. Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.

Cinda Williams Chima

#11. Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

Francois Fenelon

#13. We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Lester B. Pearson

#14. We are a nation of shop keepers.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#15. Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone.

Dilip Bathija

#16. There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

Ray Charles

#18. Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.

A.A. Patawaran

#19. If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.

Jodi Picoult

#20. We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Erwin McManus

#21. They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

Winston Churchill

#22. God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Hunter S. Thompson