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Quotes About Exploration

yet in my new wildness and freedom I
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Habían llegado a una cueva. Tras los primeros sondeos, la arenisca había dado paso a una vena caliza comanchiense llena de diminutos fósiles de cefalópodos, corales, equinoideos y spirifera, con indicios ocasionales de esponjas silíceas y huesos de vertebrados marinos —probablemente de teleósteos, tiburones y ganoideos—
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Dr. George Sheehan once said, "We are each an experiment of one.
~ Hal Higdon
One day he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this way they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk through all of them.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Sex is like art: if you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Hans Christian Andersen
~ How large the world is
Oh, how I wish I were tall enough to go on the sea," said the fir tree. "What is the sea, and what does it look like?" "It would take too much time to explain," said the stork, flying quickly away. "Rejoice in thy youth," said the sunbeam, "rejoice in thy fresh growth, and the young life that is in thee.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure
~ Hans Zimmer
Don't Tell Me the Sky's the Limit When There Are Footprints on the Moon
~ Harlan Coben
but when in doubt, you might as well keep an open mind.
~ Harlan Coben
There were some night paths the mind was better off not traversing;
~ Harlan Coben
He moved from shrub to shrub. Some of the shrubs were familiar from his last sojourn into these parts. He said hello to them, chatted, offered up his best cocktail-party banter. One shrub gave him a stock tip. Myron ignored it. He circled closer to the Coldren house, slowly, still careful not to be seen. He had no idea what he was going to do, but when he got close enough to see a light on in the den, an idea came to him. A
~ Harlan Coben
If you want to slow down time, this theory holds: If you want to make the days last, do something different. Travel to exotic locales. Take a class.
~ Harlan Coben
They were heading into the wooded areas of the mountains. The elevation was causing Adam's ears to clog up.
~ Harlan Coben
Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
~ Adam Green
If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.
~ Trevor Dunn
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
~ Andy Summers
I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
~ Lexa Doig
We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.
~ Emilio Estevez
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
~ Ray Bradbury
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
~ Anne Sullivan
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
~ Phil Collins
I'm dying to experiment with roles and touch new realms of cinema.
~ Shriya Saran