Quotes About Exploration

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.