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Quotes About Exploration

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?
~ Buzz Aldrin
Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
~ Arthur Herzog
I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.
~ Jonathan Ames
True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
~ Jane Lindskold
My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.
~ Sandi Toksvig
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.
~ Sam Shepard
'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze - there's meaning and depth and substance in the world.
~ Curt Schilling
That's what 'The Trail' ended up being, this delightful way of exploring and managing your backpack and crafting and collecting and trading with other players, doing all that in this really delicious way. When we finished that and released it on iOS and Android, tens of millions of people loved and enjoyed it.
~ Peter Molyneux
The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.
~ Alan Shepard
The trails in South Africa are completely different to Europe: dusty and loose surface.
~ Nino Schurter
I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.
~ Alex O'Loughlin
I know a number of coastal trails in downeast Maine, all of them interesting.
~ Sue Hubbell
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
~ Thomas Kinkade
L.A. is full of great hiking trails.
~ Tamara Taylor
Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.
~ David Belle
There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
~ Alexander Dale Oen
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
~ William T. Vollmann
If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.
~ Jimmy Chin
I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
~ Carre Otis
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
~ John Abercrombie
I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.
~ Keith Coogan
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.
~ Rick Rubin
I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.
~ Scott Rudin
I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.
~ Ellsworth Kelly