Voyages Quotes - Page 6

• How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Journey, Goal

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.236, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

  Martin Amis

  Genre Is, Long, People

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Adventure, Discovery

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  Scott Adams

  Ignorance, Views, Sea

  "The Call of Cthulhu". Short story by H.P. Lovecraft, www.hplovecraft.com. 1928.

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• You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Dark, Boat

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• To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

  Washington Irving

  Dream, Air, Sea

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.16, e-artnow

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• The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Land, Different

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• I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.

  David Crosby

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.

  Paul Strand

  Artist, Effectiveness, Discovery

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• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

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• Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.

  Bill Smith

  Country, Adventure, Unique

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• Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

  Ken Dryden

  Captains

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• All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

  Rebecca West

  Love You, Mean, Dark

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bearthe earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invokedfor favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

  Herman Melville

  Wrath, Wind, Storm

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.54, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Adventure, Journey

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• Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  World, Disease, Pox

  "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

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• The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

  Timothy Leary

  Radio, Pilots, Information

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• The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Sight

  "On Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Smart, Fall

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• Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Ocean, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.102

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  Bayard Taylor

  Sea, Comfort, Would Be

  Bayard Taylor (1870). “Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.25

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• The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

  Charles Darwin

  Uncles, Science, Offering

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.113, NYU Press

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• The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

  Edward Kennedy

  Adventure, Winning, Past

  Ted Kennedy's concession speech to Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City, www.nydailynews.com. August 26, 2009.

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Discovery, Goes On

  John Jay Chapman (1899). “Causes and Consequences”

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