Quotes About Exploration

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.

Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and make little edits.

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.

Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?

It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

I tore my abdomen. That ended my football career, which was what I wanted to do my entire life, and when that was over, I pretty much looked to just about anything, but nothing really caught my interest.

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time.

I like reading about the astronomical and celestial world a lot.

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

What we call endurance sport today, we've been doing for centuries with pilgrimages, walking across the earth towards some goal, which is not all-important, because it's the journey that matters.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I like certain things, I don't like others, and I like what NBC has to offer. I can do sports and I can do entertainment, and whatever they offer I'm going to try at least once to figure out what I love and what I don't.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.