Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
Anthony BourdainIt’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
Stephen HawkingI don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
David BowieScientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen HawkingI like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.
Dwayne JohnsonThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William JamesA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie ChaplinI need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Angelina JolieWe keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt DisneyThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. SeussLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon MuskEveryone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry AdamsA capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Abraham LincolnI did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David ThoreauI should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
J. R. R. TolkienAn inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerOur treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich NietzscheTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John MuirI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAfter having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Christopher ColumbusMy desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Christopher ColumbusI like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Edmund HillaryName the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark TwainThere is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest HemingwayOne of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
John MuirIt’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil ArmstrongIn the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.
Anthony HopkinsWhat I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
Elon MuskMy message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirIf you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.
Richard BransonThe movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
Christopher ColumbusThere is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert EinsteinI’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
Muhammad AliEverywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAfrica is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
Matthew McConaugheyWhen exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.
Richard BransonI’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.
Richard BransonThe traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliNobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund HillaryA lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Bob DylanNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston ChurchillEver since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.
Edmund HillaryThe balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Richard BransonWe have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.
Richard BransonAmazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Jeff BezosCuriosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAmerica had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar WildeTomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
Christopher ColumbusIf you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.
Henny YoungmanI guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen KingAviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.
Amelia EarhartFollowing the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher ColumbusThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand RussellLive dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheVoyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James Baldwin