Quotes About Exploration

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other people are not likely to go or had done something that others are not apt to do.

Dar amintirea nu-l atac? pe om din fa?? - ea îi d? târcoale.

Where are they going? Alpha Centauri. That's impossible. Very likely. But that's where they're going. Why? It's less impossible than here.

But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.

In detective work you thought in much the same way as you would pick your way across a swamp, testing for firm ground each time you took a step forward.

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you'd pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.

Stories provide a map that can help navigate the bumps in the road. (p.32)

the sort of kid who steered his bicycle around snakes crossing the road

That's why I love libraries, though... it's not just the books ; it's crazy hopes and dreams. (Lexie)

as though it's the most natural thing in the world for me to come strolling out of the woods at past one in the morning.

My desire to see as much of the world as I could started with these stars.

Ju? wiosna z ciepÅ'ym powraca powiewem, Ju? marcowego nieba i mórz gniewy WesoÅ'y Zefir koi pieszczotami. Wnet ziemie Frygii zostanÄ… za nami, Katullu, pola Nicei uprawne - Pole?my do miast azjatyckich sÅ'awnych! Ju? do wÅ'óczÄ™gi myÅ›l zrywa siÄ™ lotem, Nogi siÄ™ pr??? z radosnej ochoty. A wiÄ™c ?egnajcie, towarzysze mili! W podró? dalekÄ… wspólnieÅ›my ruszyli, Ró?nymi szlaki wrócimy z powrotem.

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

I am hungry for something to do, somewhere to go.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last.

There are no rules here, only possibilities!

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

What do you say to taking chances?

I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;

Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE

What's next from you? Paintingwise, I mean." "I don't know. I'm between things now." "Dawn between things or dusk between things?" "I don't know that, either.

The tiny color planes in the Cézanne, like the pieces of a riddle, exquisitely explored, investigated, probed, resolved, each daub of color another piece of his answer to the greatest riddle of all: how we see and think the world.