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Voyages Quotes - Page 2

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

Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.469, Harvard University Press

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

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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

Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.49, Canongate Books

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

Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

"Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson