Quotes About Exploration

And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

As we continue upriver, we move farther and farther away from the world I know, and toward someone else's. It's thrilling to not know where you're going.

It's these condiments here, the chilis, the chili padi [Thai chilis]. Once you have that, there's no going back. They open up the nether regions of your palate, which hitherto you didn't know existed.

Which is how I found myself in a bathroom full of machine-guns.

A vida de cozinheiro era uma vida de aventura, saque, pilhagem e rock'n'roll sem parar, com um desprezo displicente por toda a moral convencional. A vida do outro lado do muro parecia-me muito boa.

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

I wanted to be apart from everything I grew up with. In short, I wanted to be elsewhere.

Plain of Jars is a collection of thousands of massive limestone cups whose origins remain unknown, scattered over a wide area of Laos's Xiangkhoang Province.

Live the dream for a bit. But keep your eyes open. And be careful. As you'll see, many visitors came to Tangier for a short vacation and remained for life. It's that kind of place.

Sometimes you see the uninviting door and just have to go through it.

But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that? I nudged him hard, saying: Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.

What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

you are out of the field of the novel

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.

We must be cloaked by the stars and wrapped by the moon; we must dine on the winds and rest by the waters. We move on if there's a road, and we stop only when we come to its end.

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.

For lust of knowing what we should not know,' he was fond of intoning, 'we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Adventures only happen to adventurers,' Mr Deacon had said one evening when we were sitting drinking in the saloon bar of the Mortimer.

Never test the depth of the river with both feet. —WARREN BUFFETT

Often our resources are limited only by the questions we ask ourselves.

The leaders in our culture are the people who see the possibilities, who can go into a desert and see a garden.