Quotes About Exploration

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.

People are genuinely interested about what it's like to experience spaceflight and try to get some of our perspectives on it.

Travel opens eyes and perspectives.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

Seek out different perspectives.

We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of observation and exploration and talking with people. And we absolutely embrace our actors' perspectives on all that.

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

Because Blue Peter can get you access to places - if you go to somewhere like Nasa, you don't just see what most people see, you can get a lot of behind the scenes access. You can talk to an astronaut.

Apart from films and television I have explored behind-the-camera work, and worked as a script consultant at Phantom films.

Being a twenty-something can be a difficult phase.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.