Songs on my Mind

TIME
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say

NOBODY HOME

I got a little black book with my poems in.
Got a bag, got a toothbrush and a comb.
When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone.
I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on.
Got those swollen hands blues.
Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from.
I got electric light,And I got second sight.
Got amazing powers of observation.
And that is how I know,
When I try to get through,
On the telephone to you,
There'll be nobody home.
I got the obligatory Hendrix perm,
And the inevitable pinhole burns,
All down the front of my favorite satin shirt.
I got nicotine stains on my fingers.
I got a silver spoon on a chain.
Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains.
I've got wild, staring eyes.
And I got a strong urge to fly,
But I got nowhere to fly to (-- fly to... fly to... fly to...).
Ooooo Babe,
When I pick up the phone,
There's still nobody home.

-Pink Floyd-

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Travel Quotes

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page." St Augustine

"A traveller without observation is a bird without wings." Moslih Eddin Saadi

"Curiousity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last" Samuel Johnson

"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but is the journey that matters in the end." Ursala La Guin"

The question is not what you look at but what you see." Henry David Thoreau

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be" Douglas Adams

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours." J B Priestley

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases." William Hazlitt

"Journeys, like artists, are born not made. A thousand different circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think." Lawrence Durrell

"Anything remarkable would be disasterous so you define a good flight by negatives. You didn't crash, you didn't get hijacked, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, and you weren't nauseated by the food." Paul Theroux

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" Marie Curie

"Travel teaches how to see" African proverb

"A good traveller leaves no track." Tao Tse Chung

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands but a continent that joins to them." Francis Bacon

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few." Shunryu Suzuki

"There is a great difference between travelling to see countries or to see people." Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." G K Chesterton

"Heaven sent calamaties you may stand up against, but you cannot survive those brought on by yourself.

" Shu Ching"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble." Plautus

"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains." Swami Brahmananda

"When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he has travelled altogether behind." Francis Bacon

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move." Robert Louis Stevenson

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T S Eliot

"Don't rely on others to show you the way, carry your own map." David Baird

"The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." Henry David Thoreau

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey." Babs Hoffman

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears." Glenn Clark

"I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." Anna Louise Strong

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it." Eudora Welty

"The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor." Proverb

"Two great talkers will not travel far together." Spanish Proverb

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Confucius

"I love to travel, But hate to arrive" Albert Einstein

"A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home." Carl Burns

"The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass." Mark Twain

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Helen Keller

"Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries." René Descartes

"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." Miriam Beard

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." Henry Miller

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." John Steinbeck

'But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?" Noel Coward

"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones." Anne Sophie Swetchine

"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." Susan Heller

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu

"He who would travel happily must travel light." Antoine de St. Exupery

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." James Michener

"No matter where you go, there you are." Unknown

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there." Unknown

"Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." Frank Herbert

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter." Izaak Walton

"The journey not the arrival matters." T. S. Eliot "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." Lin Yutang

"They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea." Horace

"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." Tim Cahill "Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." Benjamin Disraeli

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharal Nehru

"I should like to spend the whole of my in life traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home." William Hazlitt

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Mark Twain

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

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'." Daniel J. Boorstin

"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything." Bill Bryson

"A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change." Katharine Butler Hathaway

"I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us." Lord Byron

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." G K Chesterton

"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible... it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown." Ferdinand Magellan

"Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?" Peter Mathiesson

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place..." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled." Mohammed

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." Cesare Pavese

"Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." Cesare Pavese

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." Susan Sontag

"Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind." Rick Steves

"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." Caskie Stinnett

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." Paul Theroux

"Not all those who wander are lost" JRR Tolkien

"Walking ten thousand miles of world is better than reading ten thousand scrolls of books." Chinese Proverb

"Venture all; see what fate brings." Vietnamese Proverb