Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Oscar wilde

Oscar Wilde on love and Romance
                                   
                                          '' All romantic feeling stems from uncertainty''

Tony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain, on life...

                                  -''In the end, The tail wags the dog'
We too often hear or read quotes by famous people who have done recognizable things and let slip into oblivion the pieces of wisdom that frolic on the tongues of the everyman.
In an effort to counter this trend, I have decided to start what will become a recurring mini-post that I like to call... ''sounds like a quote''

-Helena Francis, on life in oakville and self confidence, (on flight to Barcelona)

                                 -''It's Hard to be mildly attractive in a city full of drug addicts''


-Helena Francis,  in response to my posting of her comment,

                                             -"what is said in the air, should stay there"
-Eleni Albous, on the complexities of social order.

                                          -''socialism... practical, but vulnerable''
- “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

- “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

- “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

-A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

-“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou


- “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

-“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

- “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

- “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling