Quotes About Adventure

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

One thing I think about a lot is that one of my favorite pieces of narrative art as a child was 'Calvin and Hobbes.' I really saw myself in the character of Calvin. I was rambunctious, I didn't always follow the rules, I had a wild imagination.

I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. 'The Prince and the Pauper,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth.' Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

I'm not going to take anyone else's word for it, or NASA, or especially Elon Musk with SpaceX. I'm going to build my own rocket right here and I'm going to see it with my own eyes what shape this world we live on.

I love coming to America to race. Maybe that's because I'm a big fan of NASCAR as well.

Freshman year of college we got to go on a NASCAR course in Charlotte.

I'm from Clearwater, Florida, and I love Nashville so much I don't even really miss the beach.

When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.

There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

For me, it's great to see 'Gateways' finally make it to the console. Think of it as 'Portal' meets 'Castlevania' as you try to put together your gateway gun before your lab becomes overrun with nasty enemies.

We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.