Quotes About Exploration

To help you fill in the details of the world you are creating, imagine that your characters inhabit a real world. Daydream what it would be like to be there. What would your characters eat, what would they talk about, where would they get their supplies, etc. Keep asking the question, "What happens next?" Show your characters actions and write down their thoughts

I like to be wherever interesting things are happening. It's a terribly bad habit of mine.

Me siento como si viviera en un mundo imaginario, en un sueño en el que todo es posible.

Christopher Paolini

As she hurtled downward, Eragon said, If we had enough jewels, and if we stored enough energy in them, do you think we could fly all the way to the moon? Who knows what is possible? said Glaedr.

with him. As Eragon closed the screen to the bedroom, he saw something in the corner that he had missed during his first inspection: a spiral staircase that wound up a dark wood chimney. Thrusting the lantern before him, he cautiously ascended, one

Eragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks

Christopher Paolini

he faced south and the strange, barbaric lands that lay there.

know what question he's trying to answer? "I have not the slightest idea. Tenga always had a question he was trying to answer. If he succeeded, he immediately chose another one, and so on. He may have answered a hundred questions since I last saw him, or he may still be gnashing his teeth

But I remember when I read The Way of Kings, there were two things that struck me, like from a technical standpoint—it felt like you tackled a fantasy world almost as if you were writing science fiction.

Someday, he said, when I'm old and rich, I'll have my own spaceship. Just you wait.

Shucks, this is one of the bad things about talking to librarians, I asked one question and already she has us digging through three different books.

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.' 'If there really are such creatures in here,' Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.

My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

Spyglasses, as Lipperhey called telescopes, whether they're in the form of spotting scopes, spyplanes, or reconnaissance satellites, are more than simple instruments or tools. They beget infrastructures and geographies.

Most people would not open a door unless they knew what lay beyond, and even if they opened the door by mistake, they would find an uninteresting room beyond.

Solo aquellos que se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos sabrán lo lejos que pueden llegar.

Machines have no fear of the unfamiliar.

the objective of all man's toil in this world: To reach beyond his own mind.

On this trip there was no minute of time while travelling between San Patricio and the settlements on the San Antonio River, from San Antonio to Austin, and again from the Colorado River back to San Patricio, when deer or antelope could not be seen in great numbers. Each officer carried a shot-gun, and every evening, after going into camp, some would go out and soon return with venison and wild turkeys enough for the entire camp.