Quotes About Discovery

We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Even on holidays, I wake up early, and by 7 A.M., I am out sightseeing.

I'm over beach-based 'do-nothing' type holidays now.

It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

I was discovered when I was 13 by an agent. I was standing outside a coffee shop in Gothenburg, my hometown, when I was approached.

I was 10 years old, and I went to the Marigold Arena in Chicago, and I was hooked, just like that.

Anthony Bourdain was the one who hooked me on Laos.

I would walk around in all these cities we lived in because my dad would move around so much. I would just walk the streets with a ball in my hand, and my mom holding my other handing waiting to find a hoop to play in. That was my first love of basketball.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

You try all kinds of things when you are young and hopeful.

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

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

I don't feel like a hero - just another person involved in the space business. I'm hoping to encourage young folks to become explorers.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

I didn't understand anything about fracking or horizontal drilling until about 2010, when I first learned about the Eagle Ford.

My relationship to 'Rocky Horror' probably started when I was younger than my parents would like me to admit.

I first went to 'Rocky Horror' when I was 14, and nothing was the same after that. For about two months afterwards, I would watch that movie in my bed every night.

I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.