Quotes About Exploration

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

I've always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. I had pictures of space up in my room way back in middle school, right next to the boy band posters!

I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music.

My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.