Wander Quotes - Page 26

• The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

  Leslie Stephen

  Journey, Practice, Hiking

  Leslie Stephen (2012). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.265, Cambridge University Press

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• Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Hiking, Walking Home

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• .... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

  David Livingstone

  Eye, Exercise, Journey

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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• It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime.

  George Orwell

  Expression, Giving, Anxiety

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Heart, Feet

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• Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Airports, Mazes

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• Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Perception, Mind

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  Jill Tarter

  Heart, Home, Discovery

  "Are We Alone In The Universe?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 15, 2013.

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• Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Dream, Art, Saving Up

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• Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Drama, Adventure, Journey

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Circles, Wonder

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• If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

  Henry Williamson

  Mother, Ocean, Nurse

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber

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• People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

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• Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

  St. Jerome

  Fall, Bird, Beast

  "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,

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• The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Moving, Artist

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• Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

  William Allingham

  Kings, Spring, Yellow

  William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.176

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  Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.

  Larry David

  Order, Want, Sometimes

  "Hitching a Ride With Larry David". Interview with Paul Samuel Dolman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

  Henry James

  Office, Mind, Criticism

  Henry James (1969). “Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes”, p.315, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Reflection, Thinking, Talking

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• Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

  John Muir

  Heart, School, Views

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Fate, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.115, Penguin

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• For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Past, Men

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

  Lucretius

  Doubt, Void, Knows

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.17

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• I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Life, Lucky, Care

  Guy de Maupassant (2007). “The Horla and Other Stories”, p.38, Wildside Press LLC

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