Quotes of Wanderer - somelinesforyou

“ Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ We're all pilgrims on the same journey — but some pilgrims have better road maps. ”

- Nelson DeMille

“ The traveller has reached the end of the journey! ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? ”

- Ralph Hodgson

“ Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV). ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. ”

- Helen Mirren

“ Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. ”

- Franz Liszt

“ I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. ”

- Anita Roddick

“ The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist. ”

- Franz Liszt

“ Range Rover Saved Me from Injury. ”

- Eartha Kitt

“ Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ”

- Leon Edel

“ I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me. ”

- Julie Delpy

“ The wise and intelligent are coming belatedly to realize that alcohol, and not the dog, is man's best friend. Rover is taking a beating — and he should. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one. ”

- Guy Ritchie

“ The name of the Slough was Despond. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row. ”

- Florence King

“ A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ”

- Mason Cooley

“ A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. ”

- Jackson Pollock

“ The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. ”

- Michel Foucault

“ Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row. ”

- Florence E. King

“ I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. ”

- George S. Kaufman

“ Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower. ”

- William Allingham
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