Quotes of: Excursions Keyword

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Franz Grillparzer

...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

Ivan Reitman

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Taylor Caldwell

Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

Excursions in my Mind

When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.

Excursions in my Mind

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

Meriwether Lewis

I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.

Linda Ronstadt

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

Jack Vance

Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.

Excursions in my Mind

Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.

Excursions in my Mind

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

Brian Eno

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Charles Sturt

(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

The Confessions of Edward Day

Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.

Excursions in my Mind

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

The Great Gatsby

How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

Injustice For All

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Lou Reed

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrific...

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.

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