Explorers Quote by Pankaj Mishra

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed…

— Michael Palin

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

— Michelle Monaghan

I wanted to really delve into the idea of reckoning with difficult things in one's past - and celebrating the joyful things, and honoring…

— Arlo Parks

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find…

— Alex Wagner

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of…

— Werner Bischof

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

— Sophie Rundle

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one…

— Henry Miller

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very…

— Andrew Wyeth

I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

— Michael Palin

People would go from village to village with their books in a time of poverty and disease. They would get people around them, and…

— Lexi Alexander