Minnie Pearl Quotes

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

That’s a detour.

Touring doesn't have to be a harried, cliched way of life.

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.

I travel quite a bit.

I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

I love driving through Western Massachusetts, out through the Berkshires, when the road is empty and it's a nice day. I don't like driving home on Memorial Drive at 5:45 or 6:45 at night when it's crowded and stressful. I think that's true of most people, and the goal of automated driving is to take the stressful part of driving out of the task.

It would be very interesting to travel across the world.

If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.

The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.

Whenever I have time off, I love to travel and explore.

I want to travel the world.

When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It's a mitigating factor if you're trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.

I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.

Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.

We like to take picnics and sandwiches, driving through the green lanes. My wife loves the house, the dogs, and the animals we have around us, the deer and the fox that comes and pokes his head through the hedge.

My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.

Sometimes, the easiest route is not the best route.

I want to travel all over India.