Quotes About Exploration

Move forward, into the empty plane. Find the book you wrote, and read it until the end, but don't turn the last page yet, keep stalling, see how long you can keep expanding the infinitely expandable moment. Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?

if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

Primeiro, uma noite passada no meio de gente armada a beber vodka e, agora, pelos vistos, eu era a primeira pessoa a entrar na antiga União Soviética a fazer acrobacias numa mota. Viva a Rússia!

De fapt, îmi plac turiÈ™tii, pentru c? oamenii sunt mult mai simpatici în vacan?? decât atunci când bat uÈ™ile birourilor.

But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

Charlie Higson

Ed held his sword tight in both hands and went slowly and carefully down. There was the unmistakable smell of sicko down here and Ed's throat was very dry.

Course I'm scared. I'm always scared when we go somewhere we've not been before. It's good to be scared. Keeps you alive." - Ollie, The Enemy

Books were a gateway into an alternative universe. They were magic. A book could hold anything inside it.

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act..It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

To make collections of wild flowers for the several months, press them, and mount them neatly on squares of cartridge paper, with the English name, habitat, and date of finding each, affords much happy occupation and, at the same time, much useful training: better still is it to accustom children to make careful brush drawings for the flowers that interest them, of the whole plant where possible.

my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...

And all the time we have books, books teeming with ideas fresh from the minds of thinkers upon every subject to which we can wish to introduce children.

A morning in which a child receives no new ideas is a morning wasted.

And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a broad foundation for such height, such breadth, such interlocked combination of feeling as left me fairly blinded with the wonder of it.