Quotes About Exploration

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'

I just kind of go by the theory of, 'Don't knock it until you try it.'

I think 'Top Gear,' it's about people knocking about.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without knowing all those songs.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

I'm not that knowledgeable with the guitar - I just find ways that are pretty creative, but it's all within the framework and the limitations of what I can do.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

A friend and me took the slowboat from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1993.

I would have loved to have been in Hong Kong, or China, in around the 18th century.

Bo Innovation is there for anyone who comes to Hong Kong and wants to learn about Hong Kong in the shortest amount of time.

I go a lot to Korea and Japan.

I've always been attracted to something that's a little bit left - Korean R&B, South African hip-hop. I'm really curious about my homies back in Jamaica, what are they listening to? I'm always searching.

In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.

I went to Kuwait, Baghdad, you know all through Iraq. I went to Qatar, Afghanistan.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

My lab is like a fantasy world - it is more like a 'James Bond' movie!

In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.