Wander Quotes - Page 14

• My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Book, Imagination, Framework

  Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House

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• You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

  Joseph Kanon

  Party, Garden, Light

  Joseph Kanon (2012). “Istanbul Passage: A grippping historical thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

  Simon Winchester

  Travel, Land, Profound

  Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin

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• Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Glory, Fades, Arrivals

  J. A. Baker (2011). “The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Smell, Water, Silence

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Inspiration, Frustration, Light

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• The thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab.

  Colson Whitehead

  Block, Worry, Aliens

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

  Saint Augustine

  Character, Renegades, Sacraments

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• How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

  Gerald Heaney

  Teaching, Eye, Law

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• Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Data, Thought Provoking, Marketing

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• If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

  Rumi

  Eye, Use, Discrimination

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• To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

  William O. Douglas

  Beach, Nature, Journey

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is possible to find what we have cut off from, to "remember" a once vital aspect of ourselves. We may uncover a wellspring of creativity that has been hidden for decades.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Creativity, Cutting, Confusion

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• Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.

  Janet Morris

  Love

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.91, Paradise Publishing

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• What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

  Al Smith

  Sunshine, Journey, Hiking

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• People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of some location where we do feel at ease. While we're on this search, it doesn't occur to us to consider how or where we're going to end up. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

  Naoki Higashida

  Running, People, Autism

  Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK

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• The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

  Horace Kephart

  Home, Journey, Men

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• It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

  Horace Kephart

  Happy, Blessing, Journey

  Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”

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• You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

  Betty Grable

  Horse, Night, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

  Carol Burnett

  Falling In Love, Journey, Order

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• The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

  Edouard Boubat

  Watches, Photographer, Shows

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