Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of… — Qurratulain Hyder Copy Share Image
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away. — Barbara Ascher Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart…To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru.… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image