"How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to."

-- Alexandra Fuller

#Country Quotes #Driving Quotes

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across”
“Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”

Source : "Great Paintings of the World". Book by Jean-François Guillou, p. 190, 2000.
“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.”
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
“Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.”
“We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.”
“When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.”
“He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”

You may also like:

Alexander McCall Smith
Writer
Andre Dubus
Novelist
Azar Nafisi
Writer
Barry Lopez
Author
Erik Larson
Journalist
Firoozeh Dumas
Writer
Julie Otsuka
Author
Mary Karr
Poet
Russell Banks
Writer