Quotes About Unknown Places

#1. Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared.

Aldo Leopold

#2. I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

James Herbert

#3. The oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com

Elyne Mitchell

#4. We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.

Bram Stoker

#5. When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will."
"It sounds hideously barbaric"
"Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.

Jasper Fforde

#7. Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

David J. Lieberman

#8. I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

Stan Lee

#9. England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.

Tony Parsons

#11. Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

Michael Chabon

#12. The two men continue to despise each other today, although they must do so in private, as legally required.

Ashlee Vance

#13. When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.

Karen Kimsey-House

#14. I was quite unbalanced with that instinct for the strange and the unknown which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of far, ancient, and forbidden places.

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. If we can somehow retain places where we can always sense the unknown, our lives will be richer." Sigurd Olson

Janet Kay

#16. I am sad and have a passion for unknown, distant places. I want to see the world. And I would love it, if I just had the chance to get away for a little while. But sadly, things aren't that easy; desire won't change a thing.

Abraham M. Alghanem

#17. Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.

Lesley Choyce

#18. Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

Unknown

#19. A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.

Unknown

#20. The insides of my brain are a fading photograph, stories and images drifting away to places unknown. Leaving patches of nothingness where a name or an event or a location should be. Anyone

Shonda Rhimes

#21. Life takes us to unexpected places ... love brings us home.

Unknown Author 770

#22. Somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

David Rockefeller

#23. Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

David Bayles

#24. Don't take it personally. Just take it seriously.

Gordon Ramsay

#25. He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

Stephen King

#26. I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.

Gloria Feldt

#27. The band played up and down valleys still in those days unknown except to a few real-estate visionaries, little crossroads places where one day houses'd sprawl and the rates of human affliction in all categories zoom.

Thomas Pynchon

#28. The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

Daniel J. Bernstein

#29. When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

David Lloyd George

#30. I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me.

Julie Haydon

#31. Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Kate Milford

#32. The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Benjamin Franklin

#33. The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

Scott Westerfeld

#34. There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

Bengt I. Samuelsson