“A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depend...” — Isabella Bird Quote

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.

Every love story or Hindi film has the same story, but what makes it different is the treatment it's given. Much depends on how it is stylised, how the characters are moulded, and how the story is treated.

I have an eclectic pallet of music that I listen to. It depends on my mood.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

Whether I'm in the Hall of Fame or not, I can say whatever I like; it just depends on how it's interpreted!

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.