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You could say I'm a bit of a nomad. -- Poppy Delevingne
When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist. -- Mohsin Hamid
I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life. -- Dar Williams
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved. -- Aidan Quinn
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me. -- Julie Delpy
I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone. -- Diane von Furstenberg
The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage. -- Theodor Mommsen
I'm a nomad. -- Jorja Fox
All my life I have been a nomad. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I think I was a nomad in another life. -- Donna Karan
The short story is the literature of the nomad. -- John Cheever
It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing. -- Jared Leto
I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly. -- Sophie Kennedy Clark
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be. -- Waris Dirie
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. -- Michel Foucault
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia , are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo. -- Eve Ensler
There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong. -- Freya Stark
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. -- Cai Guo-Qiang
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. -- Chris Abani
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide. -- Doug Graham
There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement. -- Cesar Aira
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement. -- Immanuel Kant
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book. -- Roberto Bolano
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. -- Jacob Bronowski
I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly. -- Diane von Furstenberg
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. -- James A. Millward
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim. -- Mark Nepo

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