Terra Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by… — David Bainbridge
There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep… — Robyn Davidson
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch
It's great to be back on terra cotta — John Prescott
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there… — Scott Carpenter
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there… — Scott Carpenter
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give… — Erica Jong
I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of… — Lebbeus Woods
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at… — Carl Sagan
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted,… — Stephen Lang
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never… — Henry David Thoreau
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's… — Gilbert Adair
There is no terra incognito left. — Nelson DeMille
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. — George S. Kaufman
I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50… — Jonny Greenwood
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish. — Stephen Gardiner
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre… — Vincent Van Gogh

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