Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." — Walt Whitman
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. — J. R. R. Tolkien
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. — John Steinbeck
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. — John Masefield
No journey is too great,
when one finds what one seeks. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. — Richard Francis Burton
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin
Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back. — Cat Stevens
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. — Homer
Open the pod bay doors, Hal. — Arthur C. Clarke
some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind — Homer
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. — Homer
Odyssey Image Quotes
2001 A Space Odyssey Quotes
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people. — Sergey Brin
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. — Matthew Modine
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true. — Bruce Willis
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. — Arthur C. Clarke
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. — Arthur C. Clarke
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts. — Wesley Morris
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being. — Dwight Yoakam
My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned. — Lewis Black
2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug. — Robert Reed
The Odyssey Quotes
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. — Gorgias
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. — Robert Fitzgerald
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. — Karen Duffy
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. — Arthur C. Clarke
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. — Raymond Queneau
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey
How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us
Its astonishing. — Asher Roth
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. — Jon Krakauer
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. — Thomas Moore
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share. — Homer
I didn't get into ultra-endurance sports to win races, beat others, or stand atop podiums. I got into it because it's a perfect template for self-discovery--a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual odyssey to more deeply understand myself, determine my purpose, and discover my place in the world. A way to tap into my unexplored reservoirs of potential--and touch the other side. This was the promise of Ultraman. And it delivered in spades. — Rich Roll
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. — Norman Mailer
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. — Regina Spektor
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. — Tom Bodett
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey. — David Weber
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. — George Saintsbury
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages. — J. E. Buckrose
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together. — Michael J. Massimino
In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not one, but one hundred different books—and book jackets... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript. — Jessica Helfand
For never, never, wicked man was wise. — Homer
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. — Kiefer Sutherland
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness. — Andre Gide
We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters. — Georgios A. Papandreou
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest. — Andrew Wiles
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful. — Campbell McGrath
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