Expedition Quotes

"I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition."

(on Tom Tykwer, and working with him during his personal crisis) "The very first time we met we were able to tell each other so much about our personal experiences and what we were going through at the moment- my own experience was a similarly difficult and pivotal one for me, though obviously a bit more adolescent than Tom`s. It was part of what made the film seem like a joint search for something, a joint expedition."

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

The subpoena served on Mr. Hubbell was the quintessential fishing expedition, ... The independent counsel freely admits that he was not investigating tax-related charges when he issued it.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

I truly felt we could safely fly this mission with three people on board. That is not prudent today. So, as the founder of the expedition, it is my responsibility to act accordingly.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Today nobody (is) using leather shoes. Only in this expedition we used this shoe.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

I was totally ignorant of the interior, and it was difficult at first to know, what I needed, in order to take an Expedition into Central Africa.

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn`t have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.