Quotes About Exploration

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?

il confine è il luogo migliore per acquisire conoscenza.

I am sailing in uncharted water and my old life is a distant shore, still visible through the haze of retrospection but receding to a grey line on the horizon.

The answer I found was in a question: 'Why not?' because 'Why not?' stopped you from asking yourself 'Why?'.

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

Don't let self-imposed, unnecessary restrictions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question: 'Am I imposing rules that I don't need to? Can I change or bend the rules to my advantage?

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

It's just about impossible to be perfect all the time. In fact, some days it's hard to do anything right. But sometimes things go really well. There are a lot of new things to learn, a lot of new rules and regulations.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

How close people could be to us when they had gone as far away as possible, to the edges of the map. How unforgettable.

He talks about the gift of being lost in the woods. I've always found that comforting, somehow. That maybe you have to be truly lost before you can find yourself again.

Searching out something important and going astray look exactly the same for a while, in fact.

It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it.

I want to be passionate about things and feed my mind and travel the world. I'd rather be darkly and dangerously happy, like living on a knife's edge, than lose my way and forget my nature.