Quotes About Exploration

People ask how far I've gone in life. About 20 miles.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.

I run five miles three times a week; I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.

If you're at Kennedy Space Center, the closest you're going to get to a rocket going off is like three and a half miles.

Crossing the Gobi was a real milestone for me.

I was young, out of the military service in Israel. I was looking for a big adventure, and I was searching for it.

God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'

Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

I feel as if I've been to Miami a million times because I do so many cruises out of Miami.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Never in a million years would I have thought I could have been an astronaut candidate.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The creative mind is restless.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

Little boys have amazing minds.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.