Jonathan Raban Quotes

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

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

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

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.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I've been travelling all my life.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

To travel like a bird, lightly to view: Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand,: Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land;: To escape time, always to start anew...: Hooded by a dark sense of destination...: Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

The journey is my home.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.