Quotes About Exploration

She supposed she could Google, but she preferred to wonder.

They marveled over how they could bring her to any restaurant and she'd try almost any food; she'd scarf down olives, caper berries, and stinky cheese and lovingly suck on a piece of lemon.

He'd always known that Samantha Dark was like her name. She wasn't meant for a normal life, that fake life of smiles and perfect days. There was more inside of her, a twisting, snaking dark, an understanding, even a need to explore the tainted side of life.

What would you like to do tonight?" Go to the moon with you.

I didn't like to quit anything, but sometimes things just don't work out and it's better to admit it and try something else.

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Tight-lipped, guided by reasons only, Cautiously let us step into the era of the unchained fire.

You will find what you want to find.

Hobey-ho here we go.....

I can take a book in my hands and voyage across the world. China, Burma, Jamaica—the very sound of the words is an enchantment bringing me sights and sounds, and odors that my senses have never savored.

Mrs. Parsons says, 'I know exactly what you mean but I envy you all the same. I envy you going to new places every few years – meeting new people and making new friends. It is such an interesting thing to study people, to get inside their skins and see life from their point of view. And you can do it. Some people travel all over the world and see nothing. They go about clad in a thick fog of their own making through which no impressions can penetrate

If there's no future in what you're doing you should cut your losses and try another line.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War

Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.

I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up with new adventures that kept us moving. That was his job. Trolling for girls at the beach was okay by me, but I didn't want it to be our sole focus. Besides, the girls I liked had more interesting things to do than spend every waking moment sitting around at the beach comparing tans.

There's nobody to challenge you," I said softly. "Nobody to argue with. Nobody to push you and help you find new ideas. For a guy like you, that sounds like death.

D.J. MacHale

the cat-people of Eelong