Quotes About Exploration

I want to live a lot of different lives, not just one. I wish I could have lived forever, in every age and every country, seen everything and done everything and felt everything." p. 193

The world had edges but you couldn't see them going, only when you were trying to come back.

blackbird. They reached the sandy area

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

need you to go to Catasaga, Nick. Indefinitely.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein People

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

I see Christina, emerging, chewing and sticky-fingered, between two panels of the tent. Partly out of bravado and partly in order to test what will happen, I bite her on the arm as hard as I can

Won't you take me to Monkey-Town?

I'm always interested in the future. I plan to spend the rest of my life there.

You can't walk the last hundred yards, too marshy-mushy. Not that you'd want to. Gator country. Snap, Snap.

Alex kicked in Babylon but needed to get to Macedonia." No chuckle. Rule of thumb. If a joke needs explanation, there is no point. I let it go.

So what's the plan?" Ben asked. "Go inside. Look around. Improvise." "Brilliant." Hi stroked his chin. "Quick question: Is having no plan the same as having a terrible plan, or are those different categories?

you are looking for?

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

So just ask the question. After all, what's the worst that could happen? "No" isn't really so bad, and "Yes" might take you places you'd never expect.

A boat is always safe in the harbor," she wrote. "But that's not what boats are built for.

or Cambridge to

Are you one of those fifty-shades-of-bondage people? I haven't been into that in the past, but I might be willing to try with you. Although I would want to be the one to do the bondaging, while you would have to be the bondagee.

I want to only imagine things, not know them.

You think I don't understand curiosity? Lady, I am made of curiosity. I am a hundred dead cats.