Unpredictable Journeys Quotes

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

Frustration with the trains is inevitable, given the daily difficulties commuters face.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

Life - life is not fair. But it can be extraordinary.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.