#voyage

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#boldly #enterprise #five #go #gone

They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#novel #the-voyage-out #virginia-woolf #woolf #nature

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#background #common #corps #desire #discovery

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. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#continents #dangers #did #discovered #her

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! ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#also #best #better #boston #condition

His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules. ↗

— A.E Van Vogt

#science-fiction #voyage-of-the-space-beagle #age

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#life #sail-forth #seek #untold-want #voyager

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. ↗

— Seneca

#am #choose #death #depart #go

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

— Marcel Proust

#discovery #eyes #having #landscapes #new