Quotes About Exploration

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

You don't know that you're not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.

Growing up I really loved Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, Fiona Apple, Everything But The Girl. I listened to a lot of really random things too that I would find by myself. I would find Minnie Riperton albums that I would fall in love with, also, a lot of old country records.

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first 'Star Wars' band.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

I was only in second grade when the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. The night of his launch - April 12, 1961 - I went out onto the front porch and stared up at the stars, trying to see his capsule passing overhead. Like millions of others, I was enthralled by the idea of space exploration and have been ever since.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars - more knowledge about the space between the stars.

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.