Quotes About Exploration

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

We go into nature to transform.

I've done a good job of not putting myself in a box, being able to transform, and not being scared to try new things.

I won't complain, but I don't want to just be doing action films and extended character transformations, you know? I want to explore, and I'm up for anything. Honestly, I just want to read a good script and fall in love.

While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.

Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.

I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in front of the star.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all of a sudden, I opened myself up to options about how to be.

I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.