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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

- Carl Sagan

Voyage upon life`s sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe

- Sarah Bolton

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

- Sterling Hayden

Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let`s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometres. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

- Werner Herzog

Life`s a voyage that`s homeward bound.

- Herman Melville

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

(One account, in J. Henry Cartland`s) Ten Years at Pemaquid, ... came over to this country with the view of settling here, but left his wife in the old country, until he could first make himself a little acquainted with the new country, and provide a suitable place for his family. Though he escaped from the wreck unhurt, his mind was deeply affected by his narrow escape, and he wrote to his wife such a doleful account of the storm and shipwreck that she never could be persuaded to undertake the voyage, even to join her husband. And he was too timid to risk himself again on the stormy Atlantic, they remained separated the rest of their lives.

- John Bailey

We have been lied to and misled. We should have been allowed the option of getting off at Fort Lauderdale and not taking the cruise at all. It is not in fact a cruise now but a rather a voyage by sea to Rio. Many guests are on once-in-a-lifetime holidays and I have seen several in tears.

- Alan Berg

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

- Christopher Columbus

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

- Christopher Columbus

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

- Christopher Columbus

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

- Pat Conroy

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

- John Fiske

Who would have thought 20, 10, five years ago, that Chile would elect a woman president? ... Thank you for inviting me to lead this voyage.

- Michelle Bachelet

It`s been an absolutely unbelievable voyage, both physically and mentally,

- Ellen MacArthur

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

- Aaron Capps

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

- Aaron Parrish

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

- Alex Ovechkin

No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.

- Allard Baird

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

- Allard Baird

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

- Allard Baird

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

- Allard Baird

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

- Alyssa Biondo

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

- Andrew Karmen

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

- Andrew Nielson

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

- Andrew Pincus

Voyage in Greek Cooking.

- Ann Althouse

. . . voyage through death/ to life upon these shores.

- Ann Fandozzi

I am with the angels and just completely happy, ... We are eternally grateful to the invisible hand that has guided us through this fantastic voyage.

- Anne Hillman