Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along."
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Voyages
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Schweitzer
Philosopher, Theologian
"The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course."
Nainoa Thompson
Navigator
"We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage."
William Least Heat-Moon
Author
"...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?"
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Life's uncertain voyage."
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"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
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"A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there."
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"I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances."
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"Voyages are accomplished inwardly."
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"To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."
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"Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride."
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"To read is to voyage through time."
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"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors."
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"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."
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"I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks."
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"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!"
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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."
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