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Quotes About Voyage

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
~ Christopher Columbus
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
~ Donald Justice
I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
~ Walter Murch
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
~ Junipero Serra
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
~ Joshua Slocum
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
~ Richard Gere
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?
~ Martin Rees
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
~ Philippe Petit
My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.
~ Shimon Peres
Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.
~ Lisa Stansfield
To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.
~ Mike Wallace
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.
~ Gene Cernan
I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.
~ David Crosby
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
~ Preston Sturges
I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
~ Laura Dekker
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
~ Pamela Stephenson
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Todo barco es un objeto romántico hasta que nos embarcamos en él
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not the destination, it's the journey.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is death being on a ship sailing and all your folks left back on the shore?
~ Ray Bradbury
It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time
~ Joseph Conrad
A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows.
~ Joseph Conrad