Quotes About Exploration

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

I am a serial class taker. I take classes for anything and everything!

After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out.

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

If you click on MTV, it's the same 10 bands and the same 10 songs, and it gets so old. Kids are looking for something besides what they get on the radio.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun.

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

We are apes - we should be climbing.

Climbing is what I do.

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

I'm always climbing.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

Every morning, I look in my closet and say, 'What do I wish was here?' It's looking for what's not there and making it available.

Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

When I look at the clouds over the Earth, and I know how high clouds are, I get a sense we are really, really far above those clouds. I wouldn't call it scary, but I am aware I am in space.

If I'm on a beach I'm the one to find the ammonite, or in a field I'll find the four-leaf clover.