Quotes About Exploration

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

For me personally, snorkeling in a cove in Hawaii, floating along, and looking at all the animals and the colors - I mean, that's pretty peaceful.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful.

I've climbed in a lot of places, but only once in the U.K., at Stanage Edge in the Peak District.

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.

I ain't trying to run away from no danger. If it's supposed to be dangerous for me, then I'm going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what's so dangerous about it.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop alone, and filling up a bag with penny chews, Fruit Salads, Bruiser bars and Black Jacks.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.