Neal Shusterman Quotes

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of view of an actor in Hollywood, because what could be more soft than that. Rapping about auditions and acting and stuff. I thought it was just uncharted territory to clown on, so that pushed through with Dirt Nasty.

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

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

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

We kind of know there's no more frontiers in the physical world. So the frontiers move from where we haven't been yet to where we've been and abandoned.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.

There's no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.