A Quote by Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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Travel Glamorous Only Retrospect

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Paul Theroux
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1941

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.

Zoe Saldana

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Tift Merritt

Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid.

Naomie Harris

I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

I. M. Pei

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

Randall Munroe

I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.

Elvis Mitchell

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

Kinky Friedman

Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.

Christopher Doyle

I don't know where this glamorous image and all came from. I don't find myself glamorous or bold.

Riya Sen

I'm an old bag for the most part on 'Game Of Thrones', so it's so lovely to be glamorous - as glamorous as you can be at my age!

Diana Rigg

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

Shweta Menon

But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.