Patti Smith Quotes

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.

Travelling is a key part of my life. It keeps me inspired, takes me to new places, introduces me to new sounds, and allows me to explore new environments and soundscapes.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

One must travel, to learn.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

Travel is the ultimate inspiration.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

You get educated by traveling.

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Travel teaches as much as books.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.