Amelia Barr Quotes

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.

I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

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

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I like being around people.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I'm lucky my parents travel with me.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.

I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

Tyga's one of my best friends ever, so it's so much fun to travel with him. I always like having my friends out on the road with me.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.