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The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

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

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.