Edna Ferber Quotes

I like any place that isn't here.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.

There is something very appealing about moving to a faraway place.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

I just want pieces of the world.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

The journey is my home.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

When you are travelling, there's romance, and there's music.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.