Quotes About Exploration

There's so much more to book than just reading

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive, and either you hit your head on a rock and it splits your skull and you die, or, that blow to your head is so inspiring that you come back up and you do the best work you ever did. But — you have to take the dive. And you do not know what the result will be.

Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody – only children. A letter from a seven-year-old boy encourages me to think that I have reached children as I had hoped. He wrote: 'How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive my sister and I want to spend the summer there. Please answer soon.' I did not answer that question, for I have no doubt that sooner or later they will find their way, free of charge.

Evelyn : You were actually at Hamunaptra? Rick : Yeah, I was there. Evelyn : You swear? Rick : Every damn day.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock." Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1962–1965, United

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock." Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1962–1965, United States Secretary of Labor, United States Ambassador to

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock." Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1962–1965, United States Secretary of Labor, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Section 21, Lot S-35, Grid M-20.5, Arlington National Cemetery.

And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.

A new city was a new toy to her, and—for it was youth's homage that she loved best—this city of youths was a toy after her own heart.

the other?" I tried using the new whatchamacallit

They also wouldn't let me climb the waist-thick trunk up to the square bunches of small

shuffle. "I told myself that I had to figure out all the rules of this world, but I get now that I've gotta go further.

challenging readers to watch these old movies "with the eyes of a six-year-old child, eyes that flick constantly from the terror on the screen to the dark, rustling trees outside the window.

Although Sharon was found in the ruins of Wichita, there is no way of knowing where her story originally occurred.]

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Wie die Winde sind die Möglichkeiten unseres Lebens, und warum wagt man nie, die Segel auszuspannen?

Adventure is what makes life worth living, and the way to have an adventure is to expose yourself to risk.

It is essential to take risks. Examine the life of any lucky man or woman, and you are all but certain to find that he or she was willing, at some point, to take a risk. Without that willingness, hardly anything interesting is likely to happen to you.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Who has more reason to worship than the astronomer who has seen the stars? Than the surgeon who has held a heart? Than the oceanographer who has pondered the depths?

The Bible is not a newspaper to be skimmed but rather a mine to be quarried.

521It does little good to make the trip and miss the journey!

make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that" (Gal. 6: 4 MSG).

Si tous les hommes se mettaient à chercher une explication à la folie de leurs actes, il y a longtemps qu'il n'y aurait plus d'aventuriers.