Quotes About Exploration

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.

Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

A Woman is a foreign land,Of which, though there he settle young,A man will ne'er quite understandThe customs, politics, and tongue.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!

This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

Sidewinder tracks lifted off the dunes and flew around us.

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

Be prepared for a journey, but don't expect a destination.

Be prepared fpr a journey, but don't expect a destination.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

between safety and adventure I choose adventure

I want to learn and continue to learn. It's the only way to stay alive.

Look out there, my little princess," he called down to her. "These plants are only the very tip of the earth's treasures, almost like hairs on her head. She hides so many other secrets deep within her, and one day, if you're lucky, you may find some of them.

As he began to drift again Jean was never sure whether he saw or did not see, a troupe of monkeys clad in blue Hussar coats piped with yellow twist, enter from a small door to swing across the great chamber and exit like nomadic wanderers into a great door emblazoned by the setting sun.

There are a number of smells I've loved in my lifetime, but few can compare with the smell of a bookstore.

I steered us across a bridge that had been made from an old freight car, a common practice in our part of the world, and pulled up to a number of strands of barbed wire with a steel sign affixed, which read KEEP OUT, PRIVATE PROPERTY, followed by TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. I slowed the truck to a stop and looked at the shiners riding shotgun. "Feel like doing something unlawful?" She cracked the passenger door open and climbed out. "Always, and all ways.

You know, Pete Conrad died on a motorcycle." "Who's Pete Conrad?" "The third man to walk on the moon.