Travel Essays Quotes

#1. I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

Chelsea Cain

#2. When you want something, you have to learn to control it and make it yours.

Victoria Ashley

#3. When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

Barbara Conelli

#4. Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

Scarlett Johansson

#5. I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh ... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

Norm MacDonald

#6. My crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#7. I think, sir,' said Demelza, 'that your apricot tart is about to be laced viz cream and rum, and you would do well to discover wezzer you can attempt zat.

Winston Graham

#8. Never forget the first three letters of confidence.

Anthony Marra

#9. The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

Pico Iyer

#10. Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope.

Dean Koontz

#11. I didn't know I had another mother,' said Coraline cautiously. 'Of course you do. Everyone does,' said the other mother, her black-button eyes gleaming.

Neil Gaiman

#12. (paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

Walter Brueggemann

#13. In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.

Eliza Dushku

#14. No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. 6 The first job God gave humans was to manage and take

Rick Warren

#16. Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.

Tara Lynn Masih

#17. You should never play safe with your heart. It doesn't get to grow if you don't take it out. You break it. You give it away. And sometimes, you kind of hope someone gives it back to you - maybe wrapped up and taped but better because they held it for a little while.

Rhys Ford

#18. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Elbert Hubbard