Voyages Quotations

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

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

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

We are absolutely delighted by the successful recovery of the Stardust samples. Years of planning, preparation and teamwork paid off handsomely this morning. We're very proud to have played a role in another of NASA's exciting voyages of exploration and look forward to learning what Stardust will tell us about the origins of our solar system.

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Fan Serien wie Hidden Frontier und New Voyages beweisen, dass es immer noch viel Leben im Star Trek Franchise gibt

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, it's continuing mission to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

The National Ocean Exploration Program Act encourages NOAA to conduct scientific research and archaeological voyages to shipwrecks and other submerged sites,

These voyages will lead to greater discoveries regarding marine life and maritime history. There are many secrets held fast by the oceans. They are the last frontiers on Earth.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...

Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’ Perhaps not quite directly.

Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

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.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

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...

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Life's uncertain voyage.

To read is to voyage through time.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

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.

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.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.