Sackville Travel Quotes & Sayings

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same. — Vita Sackville-West

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets. — Charles De Lint

Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life. — Soen Nakagawa

When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God's grace ... Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love. — Darlene Zschech

Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite. — Robert W. Bly

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves. — Vita Sackville-West

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with. — Ringo Starr

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability. — Oscar Pistorius

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen ... — Vita Sackville-West

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. — Vita Sackville-West

A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance. — Jodi Picoult

The people we love fall into two distinct camps, it seems to me. First, those whom we are obliged to care for, connected to us through ties of blood and, occasionally, other people's marriages. Then there are those few souls who suit us so perfectly that we cannot help but love them. Those whose very presence seems to lift our spirits, soothe our ruffled feathers, tilt the disturbed world so that its axis is true again. — Sharon Bolton

Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse. — Jonathan Wilson

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold. — Seth

The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled. — Ernest Hemingway,

A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. — Washington Irving

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised. — Vita Sackville-West

Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore. — Diana Peterfreund