Quotes About Exploration

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Au-dessus des étangs, au-dessus des vallées, Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers, Par delà le soleil, par delà les éthers, Par delà les confins des sphères étoilées

Para el niño, amante de mapas y grabados, el universo es igual a su inmenso apetito. ¡Ah, qué grande es el mundo a la luz de las lámparas!, ¡qué pequeño es el mundo a los ojos del recuerdo!

Así pues el señor G., al haberse impuesto la tarea de buscar y explicar la belleza de la modernidad, representa mujeres muy arregladas y embellecidas por todas las pompas artificiales, cualquiera que sea el estrato social al que pertenecen.

Je questionnai l'un de ces hommes, et je lui demandai où ils allaient ainsi. Il me répondit qu'il n'en savait rien, ni lui, ni les autres ; mais qu'évidemment ils allaient quelque part, puisqu'ils étaient poussés par un invincible besoin de marcher.

La génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté.

A man could lose his identity fucking around too much.

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.

I'm sorry, you see, I have no sense of direction. I've always had nightmares about getting lost. I believe I belong on another planet.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

did you ever consider that lsd and color TV arrived for our consumption around the same time? Here comes all this explorative color pounding, and what do we do? we outlaw one and fuck up the other.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.

I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a sentence or a paragraph out of the idea.

I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people—from a distance. I don't want them too near because that's when attrition starts.

I got into the car and began cruising up and down the streets looking for a For Rent sign. It didn't seem to be an unusual thing to do.

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

Not until the 1440s did they learn that the island's warm climate was better suited to another, more profitable crop: sugarcane.

Because I am interested in Colón, I bought a copy of the translation when I spotted it in a used-book store. Part of a series the Italian

European visitors marveled at the number of nut and fruit trees and the big clearings with only a dim apprehension that the two might be due to the same human source.

The first European adventurers in the Western Hemisphere did not make careful population counts, but they repeatedly described indigenous America as a crowded, jostling place—"a beehive of people," as Las Casas put it in 1542. To Las Casas, the Americas seemed so thick with people "that it looked as if God has placed all of or the greater part of the entire human race in these countries.

Colón's signal accomplishment was, in the phrase of historian Alfred W. Crosby, to reknit the seams of Pangaea.

a new bishop finally had the courage to land in São Tomé in 1675. He was dead in two months.