Voyages Quotes · Page 3

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

— Charles Baudelaire

“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.”

— Amelia Barr

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

— Chris Lytle

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

— Jack Kornfield

Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

— William Shakespeare

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

— Mel Brooks

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

— Jim Harrison

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

— Lee De Forest

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

— Mark Twain

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

— Bayard Taylor

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because…

— Eugene McCarthy

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in…

— John Jay Chapman

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

— Jimmy Buffett

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have…

— William Kidd

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and…

— Joachim du Bellay

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints…

— James Wolcott

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and…

— Herman Melville

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright,…

— Anonymous

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me.…

— Michael Ondaatje

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This…

— Terence McKenna

There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown;…

— Margaret Drabble

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

The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in…

— Jacques Vallee

Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by…

— Christopher Columbus

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

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

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry…

— Yukio Mishima

To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on…

— Vimala Thakar

Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the…

— Bill Smith

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment…

— George Eliot

“Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

— David Doubilet

“Great expeditions are fulfilling, the travel experience is inspired by a great facilitator.”

— Wayne Chirisa

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

— George Duke

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

— Anonymous

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

— Richard Gere

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

— Bill Toomey

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow