Expeditions Quotes

89 Expeditions quotes by 78 unique authors

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south… — Nelson A. Miles
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get… — Tim Cahill
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. — Ranulph Fiennes
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
I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards… — Bear Grylls
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. — Edmund Hillary
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the… — Edmund Hillary
I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions. — Naveen Jain
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
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
(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
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on… — Thomas Mann
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not… — Stanislaw Lem
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 – a god of mixed heritage – on an expedition that could unleash the Destroyer from her hole. Arikos, another god, on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original… — Alfred Lansing
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

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