Quotes About Exploration

Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

I would prefer to work with somebody comfortable with cutting-edge tools and theories—and unlikely to discard possible results simply because they don't follow received wisdom.

When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them

As I delved deeper into these Christian mystics, I was beginning to question in my own mind if I needed to make a path change from Zen Buddhism to Christianity. It had been many years since I'd been to my first Catholic mass, and I decided to go back a second time.

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: "I'm leaving my ordinary life behind me." And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In

Do you know this part of the world well?

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther … you've come to the end of things…. He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.

Surely, I thought, in a world where man has been able to put satellites in the sky and where men talk big about visiting the stars, there must be something that rouses you, that makes your heart beat, that's worthwhile searching all over the world to find!

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.

Mr Ratchett wanted to see the world. He was hampered by knowing no languages. I acted more as a courier than a secretary".

Man må våge viss man vil noen steder, sa fru Bantry.

Once people have got a moty car, blessed if they can stay still anywheres