Quotes of: Expeditions Keyword

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

Anne Boyd

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pu...

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gus...

The Reptile Room

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable,...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Culture is a catalyst which expedites the reaction called success.

Faisal Khosa

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

Love

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

Samina Baig

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

James Gunn

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

Edie Adams

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

Macbeth

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Dave Barry

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

Kenneth Kamler

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Steve Fossett

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are ve...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or ...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

Ranulph Fiennes

The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Talleyrand

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Louis Leakey

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Edmund Hillary