Quotes About Exploration

Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out - music from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. So much of that stuff was groundbreaking.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding who they are.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs.

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

I love to hike, fly-fish, and ski in the mountains where I live in Colorado.

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

I slalom ski. I wakeboard. I hike and rock climb.