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Quotes About Exploration

We passed through a supermarket, a clothing boutique with the latest in Viking fashions, and an IKEA outlet (naturally).
~ Rick Riordan
I am still looking
~ Rick Riordan
The best science fiction can shape how humans see their own future.
~ Rick Riordan
The bronze dragon spread his wings, and they soared into the unknown.
~ Rick Riordan
Maybe it's a quest for tartar sauce," Percy said. "Something low-stakes and delicious.
~ Rick Riordan
So, if I looked him up on google maps-
~ Rick Riordan
The Starship Enterprise is not a collection of motion picture sets or a model used in visual effects. It is a very real vehicle; one designed for storytelling.
~ Rick Sternbach
reservations
~ Rick Steves
Almost everything of importance to tourists is within a few blocks of the Acropolis, in the Plaka, Monastiraki, Syntagma, and Psyrri neighborhoods.
~ Rick Steves
travelers need only focus on four areas: the Old City, the harbor/Barceloneta, the Eixample, and Montjuïc.
~ Rick Steves
by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far).
~ Kate Atkinson
Why not?" Mrs. Scaife said, navigating her way back to the sofa and dropping anchor ("Ouf") on the salmon damask.
~ Kate Atkinson
the dogs had got into the graveyard and were now moving like Hoovers across the ground, their noses down, their tails up, their small dog brains consumed with the idea of uncharted territory and a thousand new scents.
~ Kate Atkinson
It was extraordinary how far you could go in London and barely touch a pavement or cross a road.
~ Kate Atkinson
I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. He will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.
~ Kate Atkinson
There is a world outside these walls.
~ Kate Atkinson
You can try things on if you want," Izzie said carelessly. "Although you're rather small compared to me. Jolie et petite." Ursula declined, fearing enchantment. They were the kind of clothes that might turn you into someone else.
~ Kate Atkinson
If we buy into categories of sexual orientation based solely on gender--heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual-- we're cheating ourselves of a searching examination of our real sexual preferences.
~ Kate Bornstein
All roads in life lead nowhere. So you might as well take the road that has the most heart and is the most fun. —Anonymous Zen saying
~ Kate Bornstein
I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
~ Kate Chopin
She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
~ Kate Chopin
She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
~ Kate Chopin
I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much - so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
~ Kate Chopin
As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
~ Kate Chopin