Steven Moffat Quotes

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

You never know where history will lead you.