Excursions Quotes

32 quotes by 26 authors

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist.… — Ian Anderson
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great… — Zitkala-Sa
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful… — Eric Hobsbawm
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline… — C W Ceram
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and… — Meriwether Lewis
There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on… — John Peel
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again.… — John Barrowman
We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be… — Richard Branson
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their… — Dian Fossey
If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your… — Leonard Jacobson
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed… — Leland Ryken
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. — Charles Dudley Warner
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend… — Frederick Lenz
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April,… — Edward Burnett Tylor
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a… — Charles Darwin
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made… — Samuel Johnson
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin

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