Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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.

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

I go wherever the good story is.

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

I think I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. I travel around looking for the best waves and appreciate it every second.

I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

I find this life so interesting.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.