Journeys Quotes

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn’t, like, a negative thing. And what I’ve discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas – like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.

I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take.

I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in the middle of the rainforest. When everybody else is chilling out after filming, I am usually writing!

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

I’m so interested in people’s journeys and what makes them tick, the movers and shakers.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don’t fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.

It’s essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don’t escape to hotels and if I’m living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively – especially when they are well-designed.

I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors – one of the great journeys, in my book.

Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you’re aware of the pretty, you’re not going to dig into the mess.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I’d never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

I like intellectual journeys.

We all get where we’re going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.

I’m a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I’m looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don’t fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.

We all have different journeys and we all have different experiences.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London – those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport – is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

That’s my favourite stuff to write about: my journeys and the people I meet – especially the kids.

On the one hand, I’m so relieved that I’ve actually managed to finish my very first series and that I’ve been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It’s a bittersweet mix.

In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other’s: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra is a dyed in the wool fighter.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father‘s and mother‘s journeys.

It’s not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

I relate to Nora’s transformation in Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll‘s House,’ and I also relate to both sisters‘ journeys in John Madden‘s film ‘Proof.’

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

It’s so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to take the time to be still and become aware of ourselves. The small things. The fact that we’re still breathing. Our ability to move. The presence of love around and in us. Our strengths. Our opportunities. Our journeys.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I’d never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

The richness and generosity of the human spirit I discovered in those journeys, meeting with olive farmers and people caught up in war was very humbling for me. Also, finding trees that were six or seven thousand years old made me realise what a tiny pea I am in the world.

White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

It took three years from talking about it, to meeting with Wendie Wilson–Miller from ‘Gifted Journeys’ Surrogacy, to finding the right doctor, to doing the egg retrieval and finding the right surrogate.

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it’s more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I’ve got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It’s what I’ve been elected by God to do.

I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains… I’m very lucky that I don’t get car sick when I am reading and I can spend really long journeys immersed in a book!

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I’ve ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel.

I think it’s lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That’s the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that’s a whole other conversation.

I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it’s like being unplugged from the earth.

As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup – a little went a long way. Like cilantro.

My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people’s journeys.

The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc – a beginning, a middle, and an end – and I’m always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.

If people didn’t read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Ultimately, it’s a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

For years, I meant to read ‘Arabian Sands’, Wilfred Thesiger’s account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia’s Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

I think the whole of people’s psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I’m surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.

I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I’m not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I’m not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

I’m a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I’m looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.

I haven‘t reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

Ultimately, it’s a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

The people that we sometimes start our journeys with are not the people we end the journeys with.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people’s journeys.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel – for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour‘s journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read – it was long before TV, remember!

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

During the season, the teams play every third day. That’s a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel – for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

There are many wonderful themes from ‘Moana’ that people discover, and I also hope they’re inspired to go on their own journeys and to learn more about the Polynesian culture, because we’re pretty great! I’m so proud of the people the filmmakers talked to – the Oceanic Trust.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That’s why I enjoy journeys.

We all have different journeys and we all have different experiences.

At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.

The main thing I’m into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I’m really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I’d meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

What I know now is that we’re all interconnected and that’s a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can’t judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

All of us have our own journeys.

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they’re of journeys. Whether it’s ‘Don Quixote‘ or ‘Ulysses,’ there’s always this sense of a quest – of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That’s why I enjoy journeys.

Most people’s journeys haven’t been as disjointed as mine.

I love touring. Not just the shows, I love hotels. I love motorway services at three o’clock in the morning. I like long car journeys, so I like all the trimmings basically.

It’s, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we’ve had some very serious ups and downs.

I make good music for long journeys.

If you are a fan of my BBC series ‘Great Continental Railway Journeys,’ you’ll probably not be surprised to learn that one of my great aspirations is to travel on Egypt‘s railways.

I make good music for long journeys.

My family’s story isn’t special. What’s special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

I’m a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

Shakespeare‘s frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it’s like being unplugged from the earth.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it’s football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad – perfect for long airplane journeys.

Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it’s all about journeys and campaigns and less about the actual chopping and dicing. That’s what I’d like to do with magic.

People only attempt perilous journeys like crossing the Channel because they are desperate. It is deeply concerning that men, women, and children feel they have no choice but to put their lives at risk in their search for a safe place to live.

It’s, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we’ve had some very serious ups and downs.

My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

It strikes me as odd that we’ve made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world is always changing; discoveries in technology and science relentlessly expose our dearest values as fictions.

I want us to all look at ourselves and look at our stories. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what journeys you’ve taken. Your stories matter, and they’re powerful.