Quotes About Exploration

She said she felt like Claudia Kincaid in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.

Everywhere the poems open.

Come all you young fellows who live by the sea, Kiss a fair maiden and then follow me. Hoist up the sail and the anchor aweigh, And run with the wind out through Balifor Bay.

Each book became for me the life I lacked, brought new adventure, gave me something to look forward to, gave new dimension to this parched and sterile world I live I.

The outlines of birds and beasts and sailing ships could still be seen in the apothecary's attic in Grantham, along with the drawings of men and mathematical symbols. But the boy who who had made them was gone. He had taken his notebook with him: his secret world of star names and tawny lions and golden ink made from quicksilver.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.

Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.

It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.

Que mundo! Kilómetros y kilómetros, cosas y más cosas, un cúmulo de riquezas inimaginables..., ¡y ella podía haberse quedado sin conocerlo!

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

Jack. "It's a picture of these woods!

Spies? Foreigners? Egyptians? Romans? Persians?

ago, pirates raided Spanish treasure

And millions of books," said Annie.

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Either we shall find what we are seeking, or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.