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  • There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows -- Isak Dinesen
  • Mosquitos ruin the safari. -- David Allen
  • People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy. -- Henry Cloud
  • Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. -- Paul Theroux
  • I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah. -- Dominic Monaghan
  • I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide. -- Prince Harry
  • Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. -- W. C. Fields
  • I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness. -- Wilbur Smith
  • Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future. -- J. G. Ballard
  • The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together. -- Thomas Friedman
  • I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature. -- Bai Ling
  • The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour. -- Ugo Monye
  • Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. -- Susan Sontag
  • To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time. -- Paul Theroux
  • I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day. -- Jackie Collins
  • Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.' -- Wilbur Smith
  • Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer. -- Roger Zelazny
  • I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down. -- Jennifer Egan
  • For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad. -- John Travolta
  • What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime. -- Edward Zwick
  • I met Princess Anne once at a charity do and she said Blue Peter made her realise TV was all lies - she'd gone to Africa on safari with Valerie Singleton and they didn't see a thing, but when she watched it on TV they'd edited in some lion cubs. I was like, 'Oh dear.' I still don't know if she was joking or not. -- Konnie Huq
  • I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave. -- Dara Wier
  • People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds. -- Aeriel Miranda
  • We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive me to school every day and over the weekend I would go to the mall and then occasionally on Safari. Pretty normal stuff, apart from the Safari. -- St. Lucia
  • I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. -- Don Winslow
  • I'd love to go on a safari - [I've] never been on a safari. -- Rita Ora
  • If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again. -- Isak Dinesen
  • Siku ya kuzaliwa ni siku ya kwanza ya safari nyingine ya siku 365, masaa 5, dakika 48, sekunde 46 na maili milioni 600 kulizunguka jua. Safiri salama. -- Enock Maregesi
  • There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne "? bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. -- Isak Dinesen
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