Quotes About Adventure

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.

It's incredible to be going from the Shondaland universe to 'Big Bang' creator Chuck Lorre.

Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

Growing up, I didn't have many comics, but I grew to love these characters through their film and television universes. I've been geeking out about these superheroes ever since I could tie a towel around my neck like a cape and jump off my grandmother's porch.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.

Before I left for American University, my mother told me to sign up for everything I could: to take advantage of everything from on-campus lectures to sports and social events to the amazing D.C. culture.

Long story short, right after my twelfth grade, the six months between school and university, and that is the time when I came to Delhi and I said that let me try and build a company of my own.

I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go 'streaking' with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police.

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.