Quotes About Exploration

You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate.

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.

I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.

I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.

'Rocket Boys,' for one reason or the other, just happened to strike a chord across country and across world, maybe because it's set in a little coal-mining town. That's why NASA likes it - most of the engineers come from towns very similar.

I'm so excited to be in South Africa. I want to see a lot; everything! I want to see the people and the towns.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

My new toy is not knowing, because it's very creative. I'm the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.

I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters.

Well I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren't a lot of imaginative and fun outlets for kids of my caliber, so pretty much my mom's closet and any large pieces of fabric in the Halloween box were my favorite toys.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

I never played with anything like toys.

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.