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Quotes About Exploration

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
~ Max Beerbohm
When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.
~ Michael Foale
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
~ Mortimer Adler
There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.
~ Pete McCarthy
Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
~ Phil Collins
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
~ Reba McEntire
It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
~ Riccardo Muti
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
~ Sean Penn
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.
~ Steve McQueen
From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.
~ Terence Stamp
So much universe, and so little time.
~ Terry Pratchett
From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.
~ Tony Levin
As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.
~ Tracy Chapman
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
~ Umberto Guidoni
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
~ Willem Dafoe
I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.
~ William Shatner
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
~ Elie Wiesel
My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
~ Garth Greenwell
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
~ Hal Borland
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
~ Henry Ford