Quotes About Exploration

I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Long Way Round' was the first time Ewan and I had done anything like that. We went through Mongolia and Siberia and places like that, so it was very tough.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Siberia is a state of mind.

Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

I was obsessed with everything and anything; I wanted to learn everything, to read everything, to do everything. I was constantly on sensory overload. I'd hoard dozens of books in my second-grade cubby, and literally try to read two at a time, side by side.

I don't like the terms 'positive' or 'negative,' as I think every person has good and bad in them. It's high time that we explore all these sides on television as humans.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.

Though Suparna is a Malayali, she has spent a large part of her life in Mumbai. She's a Mumbai girl. In fact, I saw the real Mumbai through Suparna's eyes. Of course, I knew Mumbai before I got to know Suparna. But it was Suparna who showed me sides to Mumbai I had never seen.