Quotes About Exploration

I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Going down to New Orleans, that's where I end up with the best meals.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.

I want to continue working in Mexico, but I'd also like to work in other countries eventually, too. Working behind the camera is interesting for me, too.

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.

I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others.

I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

'Journey' is a way for us to explore the crossing, the intersection of our lives between each other.

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.