Quotes About Exploration

Sally, Alicia, Belinda, Irene, Mary-Lou, Bill and Clarissa.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

I could be unraveling wherever I'm traveling, even to foreign shores.

If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was an architect, there's Frank Gehry. But you can't just copy somebody. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

I don't want to go to Italy no more, I don't want to go nowhere no more. You end up crashing in a private airplane, in the mountains of Tennessee... or Sicily...

It has always been my nature to take chances My right-hand drawing while my left-hand advances Bob Dylan

A lot of time you have to go down many roads to get where you are going…. The important thing is to keep moving…. Or else to stop by the side of the road every once in a while and build a house. I guess that's about the best thing anyone can do.

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my'

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it."  Pablo Picasso.

Earhart leaned forward. "When—I" but she paused and canted her head to the side. "There's a disturbance." Ivar couldn't stop himself. "In the Force?" That one flew by Earhart by about a forty-year gap.

what-iffing.

Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It was why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era

The reporter had to set his or her own course, had to push back against editors at times, to roam and be free to explore, to defy the conventional wisdom if necessary. It meant the reporters, whatever they covered, had to find the bookkeepers and the Deep Throats if possible. At the same time, as we had just been reminded, reporters need editors. In the end we are collaborators and they make the final calls.

Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It is why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.

onto the unpaved dirt road that runs toward the

Some people need coffee; I need the outdoors.

I know the power of discovery.

Today, there's more computing power in a cell phone than there was on Apollo 11, and that brought us to the moon and back.

ridden the Star Ferry from Hong Kong to Kowloon and back, had suffered two hours of rain in Hong Kong's Wanchai District, had gone up and down the Peak Tram, and had arrived at Hong Kong's Jetfoil terminal just in time to catch the last high-speed boat to Macau.

Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.