Expedition Quotes

75 quotes by 70 authors

Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition… — Mark Burnett
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard… — Ranulph Fiennes
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For… — Ambrose Bierce
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen,… — Roald Amundsen
You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end… — David Ayer
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in… — Janet Frame
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once… — Nathan Myhrvold
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition,… — Peter O'Toole
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to… — Ernest Shackleton
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated… — George Washington
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant… — Ernest Shackleton
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends — Czeslaw Milosz
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately… — Jostein Gaarder
I have you â€“ a god of mixed heritage â€“ on an expedition that could unleash the Destroyer from her hole. Arikos, another god, on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer. — Gail Carriger
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your… — Che Guevara
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. — Tahir Shah

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