Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls… — Nainoa Thompson 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 way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet… — Jacqueline Kelly 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
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
