Quotes About Exploration

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make improvements by another factor of 10... a strain sensitivity that is 10 times smaller. This means looking 10 times further out into the universe.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Most people just settle - for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here's the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people - because we're taught this - start ridiculing you.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

Strangely enough, as I explored these abandoned malls, I found myself acting like a kid all over again. At times jumping up on to nearby fountain ledges trying to balance myself as I became mesmerized all over again by the futuristic skylights that dangled fearlessly over my head.

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

Strangely, I was just not interested in biology.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.